Halton
See also: halton
English edit
Etymology edit
- (Halton, Ontario, Canada): Named after William Mathew Halton, a British colonial bureaucrat in Upper Canada.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Halton (countable and uncountable, plural Haltons)
- A placename
- A place in the United Kingdom:
- The Borough of Halton, a unitary authority in Cheshire, England, formed in 1974.
- A village in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, which gave its name to the above borough (OS grid ref SJ5381).
- A village in Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8710).
- A village in Halton-with-Aughton parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5064).
- A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3433).
- A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9967).
- A place in Canada:
- A regional municipality in southern Ontario, Canada.
- A county of Southern Ontario, Ontario, Canada
- Synonyms: Halton County, County of Halton
- A place in the United Kingdom:
- A surname.
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Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Halton is the 18347th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1510 individuals. Halton is most common among White (54.24%) and Black/African American (38.01%) individuals.