Thornton

English

"place in the thorns"

Thornton Origin and Meaning

The name Thornton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "place in the thorns".

Despite Thornton Wilder, playwright of the perennial Our Town, only a handful of baby boys receive this name each year..

Thornton Rank in US Top 1000

# 991 in the US

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Famous People Named Thornton

• Thornton Niven Wilder American playwright
• Thornton Starr Lee American baseball player
• Thornton Waldo Burgess American children's author and conservationist
• Thornton Dial American painter
• Thornton Willis American painter
• (James Brown) Thornton Chase American businessman; first Western convert to Bahá'í
• Thornton Fletcher Bell U.S. federal judge

The name Thornton in Pop Culture

• John Thornton main character in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South"
• Thornton Wolff character in "The Sims 3" computer game
• Thorntons the name of a famous British chocolate company