Sexton

40,756 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sexton in the 2020 census, making it the 831st most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,334.

By the numbers

People: 40,756
Rank: 831st
How common: 1 in 7,334
Per 100,000: 13.6

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Sexton

Anne Sexton (1928–1974)American poet
Collin Sexton (born 1999)American basketball player
Leo Sexton (1909–1968)athletics competitor
Dave Sexton (1930–2012)English football manager
Jonathan Sexton (born 1985)Retired Irish rugby union player
Brendan Sexton III (born 1980)American actor
Brent Sexton (born 1967)American actor
Dan Sexton (born 1987)American ice hockey player

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

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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.