How common is the surname Broxton?

1,617 people in the United States had the surname Broxton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 190,937 Americans. It ranked 17,441st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Broxton?

Jonathan Broxton, baseball player from the United States.

Where is the surname Broxton most common?

Wikidata records people named Broxton in the United States.

Is the surname Broxton getting more or less common?

More common. 1,419 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,617 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Broxton

An English place surname, carried by 1,617 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Broxton is more common than 89.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English burgæsn (“burial place”); the suffix -ton is not historical and it's the product of a the development of the original ending -son.

Broxton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,617 people named Broxton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 190,937 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,419.

#17,441

rank among US surnames

1,617

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+14%

change since 2000 (was #18,112)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,432	Marzano	1,618	190,819
#17,441	Canipe	1,617	190,937
#17,447	Gaye	1,616	191,055

Who is named Broxton

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

47% of people named Broxton identified as white (not Hispanic), 47% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 47%
Black (not Hispanic) 47%
Two or more races 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Broxtons

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jonathan Broxton
Baseball player from the United States, born 1984

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Broxton

Broxton has the Soundex code B623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B623.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Broxton come from?: From Old English burgæsn (“burial place”); the suffix -ton is not historical and it's the product of a the development of the original ending -son.
How common is the surname Broxton?: 1,617 people in the United States had the surname Broxton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 190,937 Americans. It ranked 17,441st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Broxton?: In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Broxton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 47% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Broxton?: Jonathan Broxton, baseball player from the United States.
Where is the surname Broxton most common?: Wikidata records people named Broxton in the United States.
What type of surname is Broxton?: Broxton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Broxton getting more or less common?: More common. 1,419 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,617 in 2010, up 14%.