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The PAXTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,013 3019 0.004 41
United States (1880 census) 3,253 1888 0.007 65
Change since 1880 +7760 -1131 -0.003 -24
Other Countries
Australia 566 2861 0.003 35
United Kingdom 2,952 2096 0.006 64
Top States for PAXTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 993 3048 0.003 29
Ohio 758 1745 0.007 67
Texas 701 3167 0.003 34
Virginia 615 1480 0.009 87
Florida 572 3482 0.004 36
Top States for PAXTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 330 819 0.018 182
Wyoming 64 841 0.013 130
Virginia 615 1480 0.009 87
Arkansas 230 1501 0.009 86
Utah 181 1631 0.008 81

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

Classification and Origin of PAXTON

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 PAXTON 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 PAXTON 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 PAXTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 914 8.3
White (Hispanic) 187 1.7
Mixed Race 163 1.48
Native American/Alaskan 78 0.71
Asian/Pacific 62 0.56
White (Caucasian) 9,609 87.25

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

Meaning of PAXTON in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the town of Paxton, in Berwickshire, Scotland.

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


PAXTON. " The family of Paxton came from the town of that name in Berwickshire, where the ancestors were long resident as clergymen of the Presbyterian kirli." B.L.G.

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 PAXTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAXTON.

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 PAXTON

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