Drayton

7,352 people in the United States were counted with the surname Drayton in the 2020 census, making it the 4,680th most common in the country. That is about one person in 40,700.

By the numbers

People: 7,352
Rank: 4,680th
How common: 1 in 40,700
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English Drayton, from Old English Drægtūn. Alternatively from cel-bry-pro *treβ (“town, settlement”) + Old English tūn.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 75.0%
White, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Drayton

Michael Drayton (1563–1631)English poet
Paul Drayton (1939–2010)American sprinter
Bill Drayton (born 1943)American social entrepreneur

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

Surnames like Drayton

Also a first name

Drayton has been given to 2,063 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2012. 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.