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The SAXON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,092 4584 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 1,372 4149 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +5720 -435 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 410 3849 0.003 25
United Kingdom 1,381 4019 0.003 30
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.

Classification and Origin of SAXON

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 SAXON 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 SAXON 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 SAXON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 117 1.65
Mixed Race 94 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 64 0.9
Asian/Pacific 31 0.44
White (Caucasian) 5,701 80.39
Black/African American 1,085 15.3

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

Meaning of SAXON in historical publications

SAXON. This name does not denote an Anglo-Saxon, in contradistinction to a Norman origin : it was probably given to a settler from Saxony in more recent times. Or, it may possibly be a coiTuption of sexton, which is so pronounced in the West of England, or of Saxton, a local name.

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 SAXON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAXON.

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 SAXON

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