Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from a place name meaning “town at the source of the river” in Old English.
20062006: 148 births, rank #1,144
2007: 165 births, rank #1,102
2008: 162 births, rank #1,129
2009: 150 births, rank #1,202
2010: 122 births, rank #1,376
20112011: 131 births, rank #1,305
2012: 166 births, rank #1,111
2013: 152 births, rank #1,180
2014: 162 births, rank #1,163
2015: 147 births, rank #1,239
20162016: 148 births, rank #1,248
2017: 133 births, rank #1,341
2018: 132 births, rank #1,352
2019: 134 births, rank #1,340
2020: 92 births, rank #1,694
20212021: 137 births, rank #1,349
2022: 86 births, rank #1,852
2023: 101 births, rank #1,681
2024: 110 births, rank #1,573
20252025: 106 births, rank #1,602
Alton moved from #878 to #998 for boys between 1998 and 2002. Its highest annual birth count came in 1937, with 836 births.