Grafton

Grafton is the 9,597th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,239 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 92,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,239
Rank: 9,597th
How common: 1 in 92,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English grāf (“grove”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Grafton

Sue Grafton (1940–2017)American writer from Kentucky
Anthony Grafton (born 1950)American historian of early modern Europe

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

Surnames like Grafton

Also a first name

Grafton has been given to 1,080 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 1916. 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.