Claxton

5,584 people in the United States were counted with the surname Claxton in the 2020 census, making it the 5,937th most common in the country. That is about one person in 53,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,584
Rank: 5,937th
How common: 1 in 53,500
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

From either the Old Norse personal name Klakkr or Old English clacc (“hill, peak”) + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.1%
Black, not Hispanic 21.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Claxton

Nic Claxton (born 1999)American basketball player
Speedy Claxton (born 1978)American basketball coach and former player

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

Surnames like Claxton

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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.