Staton

13,535 people in the United States were counted with the surname Staton in the 2020 census, making it the 2,604th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,100.

By the numbers

People: 13,535
Rank: 2,604th
How common: 1 in 22,100
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

Literally meaning "town on a stony ground." From Old English stan (“stone”) + tūn (“town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.7%
Black, not Hispanic 28.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Staton

Aaron Staton (born 1980)American actor
Candi Staton (born 1940)American singer–songwriter
Dakota Staton (1930–2007)American jazz vocalist

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

Surnames like Staton

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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.