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Newton

#6,056 in 2025Boys' name

New town

Newton has been given to 8,182 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,056 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 208 recorded.

Babies named Newton, 2025

1 in 221,000

Newton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Newton: meaning, origin, and history

New town

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Newton means

Newton means “new town”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,177 boys were recorded with the name Newton between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 208 in 1919; its best national rank was #182 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,886 in 2020 to #6,056 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,043 in 2015 to #6,056 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Newton between 1922 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #5,573 in 1922.

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 Newton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,056
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Newton 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 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Newton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Newtons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Newton was born before 1930 — so the typical Newton is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,310
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (1,552).

Is Newton 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
−2,102
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,170
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,013
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.2%
Peak was 1919 (208)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#182
1880

Spellings of Newton

Newton is not the most common spelling — Nelson is, with 22.8% against Newton's 2.3%.

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 Newton is used

Across 1910–2025, Newton was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 49,919 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 14,286
  2. 2Georgia1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 25,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 25,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 33,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Newton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Newton around the world

Where Newton ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    1999–2024
    #6,214
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2002–2021
    #2,357
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1944–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Newton

People whose public names include Newton, 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.

Newton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,056
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,170
Best rank ever
#182
1880
Peak year
1919
208 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,177
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,573
1922
Peak year
1922
5 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1922
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Newton

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

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Names with a curve like Newton

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

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Sibling names for Newton

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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