Paxton

Paxton is the 3,048th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,512 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,512
Rank: 3,048th
How common: 1 in 26,000
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English *Pæcces + tūn.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 8.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Paxton

Bill Paxton (1955–2017)American actor and filmmaker
Sara Paxton (born 1988)American actress
Joseph Paxton (1803–1865)English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament
Ken Paxton (born 1962)Attorney General of Texas since 2015
Tom Paxton (born 1937)American folk singer and singer-songwriter
Robert Paxton (born 1932)American political scientist and historian
Steve Paxton (1939–2024)American experimental dancer and choreographer
William McGregor Paxton (1869–1941)American artist

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

Surnames like Paxton

Paxson

Also a first name

Paxton has been given to 30,318 American babies as a first name since 1921, peaking in 2016. 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.