Saxton

Saxton is the 3,822nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,052 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 33,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,052
Rank: 3,822nd
How common: 1 in 33,000
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English Seaxe (“Saxons”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Saxton

Ida Saxton McKinley (1847–1907)First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901
Byron Saxton (born 1981)American professional wrestling announcer

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

Surnames like Saxton

Saxon
Saxena

Also a first name

Saxton has been given to 699 American babies as a first name since 1976, peaking in 2017. 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.