Braxton

11,749 people in the United States were counted with the surname Braxton in the 2020 census, making it the 2,997th most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,400.

By the numbers

People: 11,749
Rank: 2,997th
How common: 1 in 25,400
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Perhaps a habitational surname from the village of Branxton, in Northumberland.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 69.4%
White, not Hispanic 18.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Braxton

Toni Braxton (born 1966)American singer
Tamar Braxton (born 1977)American singer
Anthony Braxton (born 1945)American musician, composer and philosopher
Carter Braxton (1736–1797)American politician (1736-1797), signer of the Declaration of Independence
Janice Lawrence Braxton (born 1962)American basketball player
Kara Braxton (1983–2026)American basketball player
Traci Braxton (1971–2022)American singer and media personality

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

Surnames like Braxton

Also a first name

Braxton has been given to 66,654 American babies as a first name since 1885, 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.