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The SAXTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,969 3640 0.003 33
United States (1880 census) 2,986 2051 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +5983 -1589 -0.003 -27
Other Countries
Australia 237 6478 0.001 14
United Kingdom 2,390 2540 0.005 52
Top States for SAXTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 662 4466 0.002 20
Michigan 658 1733 0.007 66
Ohio 549 2577 0.005 48
Pennsylvania 512 3058 0.004 42
New York 493 3985 0.003 26
Top States for SAXTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 134 1036 0.017 171
Idaho 209 807 0.016 162
Utah 301 1011 0.013 135
Mississippi 299 1421 0.011 105
Wyoming 38 1682 0.008 77

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SAXTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SAXTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SAXTON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SAXTON by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SAXTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SAXTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SAXTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SAXTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 152 1.69
Mixed Race 149 1.66
Asian/Pacific 44 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.45
White (Caucasian) 7,157 79.8
Black/African American 1,427 15.91

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SAXTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SAXTON in historical publications

An under officer of the church, the same as Sexton. Local, Sax-town, a town of the Saxons.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


SAXTON. L A sacristan or sexton — the lowest ofiicial in a church. 2. A parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire. H.R. De Saxton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SAXTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAXTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SAXTON

The following words are slight variants of SAXTON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.