Lawton

Lawton is the 2,749th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,756 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 23,400.

By the numbers

People: 12,756
Rank: 2,749th
How common: 1 in 23,400
Per 100,000: 4.3

Where the name comes from

From Middle English, from Old English.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.6%
Black, not Hispanic 21.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Lawton

Tommy Lawton (1919–1996)English association footballer
Kevin Lawton (born 1960)New Zealand rower
John Lawton (1946–2021)British singer
J. F. Lawton (born 1960)American film director, producer and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Lawton

Also a first name

Lawton has been given to 2,866 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 2021. 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.