Molton Family Name and Heraldry

Arms linked to Moulton and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Before spelling settled in the modern era, so Moulton could easily become Molton. Taken at its root, Molton points to “Place name”.

Molton is listed among the recognised spellings of Moulton. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Molton with 698 bearers, at rank 32,865. 246 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Molton name at birth. Births under the name grew in the later decades. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Milton and Melton.

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