Keaton

At the 2020 census, 8,660 Americans bore the surname Keaton — 3,974th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 34,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,660
Rank: 3,974th
How common: 1 in 34,500
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

A variant of Caton or Keeton, or a habitational name from Keaton in Ermington, Devon, possibly derived from Welsh cae (“hedge, enclosure”) + Middle English toun (“farmstead, settlement”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.8%
Black, not Hispanic 25.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Keaton

Buster Keaton (1895–1966)American actor, comedian, and director
Diane Keaton (1946–2025)American actress and film director
Michael Keaton (born 1951)American actor
Josh Keaton (born 1979)American actor
Camille Keaton (born 1947)American actress
Joe Keaton (1867–1946)American actor

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

Surnames like Keaton

Also a first name

Keaton has been given to 23,505 American babies as a first name since 1925, peaking in 2007. 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.