Seaton

At the 2020 census, 9,196 Americans bore the surname Seaton — 3,761st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,500.

By the numbers

People: 9,196
Rank: 3,761st
How common: 1 in 32,500
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Seaton

George Seaton (1911–1979)American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theater director
Tapley Seaton (1950–2023)Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Fred A. Seaton (1909–1974)American politician
Anna Seaton (born 1964)American rower

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

Surnames like Seaton

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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.