Eaton

44,833 people in the United States were counted with the surname Eaton in the 2020 census, making it the 756th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,667.

By the numbers

People: 44,833
Rank: 756th
How common: 1 in 6,667
Per 100,000: 15.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English ea (“river”) + tun (“homestead”). As a surname, it is given to someone living near a river or on an island, or any of the various places in England called "Eaton". See also, which is.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.8%
Black, not Hispanic 9.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Eaton

Ashton Eaton (born 1988)American decathlete
Brianne Theisen-Eaton (born 1988)Canadian athlete
Mark Eaton (1957–2021)American basketball player
Courtney Eaton (born 1996)Australian actress and model
Shirley Eaton (born 1937)British actress
Mary Eaton (1901–1948)American actress
Amos Eaton (1776–1842)American botanist
George Eaton (born 1945)Canadian race driver

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

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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.