Saxon

Saxon is the 5,068th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,707 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 44,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,707
Rank: 5,068th
How common: 1 in 44,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.3%
Black, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Saxon

John Saxon (1936–2020)American actor
Rolf Saxon (born 1955)American actor

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

Surnames like Saxon

Also a first name

Saxon has been given to 1,737 American babies as a first name since 1914, 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.