Baxter

Baxter is the 712th most common surname in the United States, shared by 47,095 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,347.

By the numbers

People: 47,095
Rank: 712th
How common: 1 in 6,347
Per 100,000: 15.8

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From Middle English bakster, bakestre, from Old English bæcestre (“baker”), equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Baxter described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.7%
Black, not Hispanic 13.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Baxter

Anne Baxter (1923–1985)American actress
Warner Baxter (1889–1951)American actor
Stephen Baxter (born 1957)British writer
Stuart Baxter (born 1953)English association football player and manager
Richard Baxter (1615–1691)English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
Irving Baxter (1876–1957)athletics competitor
Lee Baxter (born 1976)Swedish association football player
Meredith Baxter (born 1947)American actress and producer

People named Baxter with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Baxter

Baxley

Also a first name

Baxter has been given to 4,034 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.