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Felton

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Felton has been given to 6,593 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1948, with 128 recorded.

Babies named Felton, 2024

1 in 478,000

Felton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Felton: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Felton means

Felton is a given name.

The naming story behind Felton

Wikidata records Felton as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q16275808, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,588 boys were recorded with the name Felton between 1888 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1948; its best national rank was #522 in 1904.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Felton between 1933 and 1933. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1933; its best national rank was #4,441 in 1933.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Felton?

Felton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Felton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Felton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Feltons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Felton was born before 1947 — so the typical Felton is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,052
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1950s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (1,020).

Is Felton rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1948 (128)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#522
1904

Spellings of Felton

Felton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 18.0% against Felton's 0.78%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Felton is used

Across 1910–2025, Felton was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,439 boys, against 1 in 22,917 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

041 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,439
  2. 2Georgia1 in 3,571
  3. 3Alabama1 in 11,111
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 20,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Felton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Felton

People whose public names include Felton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Felton by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#522
1904
Peak year
1948
128 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
6,588
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,441
1933
Peak year
1933
5 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
1933
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Felton

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KeltonHiltonSuttonWaltonNewtonDentonWiltonFelipeDeltonMaxtonBartonBentonGastonBostonJaxtonKentonAustonLaytonStantonBrytonBrittonDaxtonFultonLawton

Names with a curve like Felton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Felton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

StanfordRogersRayfordHaywardWaymonReynoldLacyArtisWardellHaywoodStantonRegis

Sibling names for Felton

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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