# Buxton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/buxton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,925 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,477 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 38,958 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.7% (7,293 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Buckstone |

## Etymology

Two main origins: * The town in Derbyshire derives from Old English būgan (“to bend, bow”) + stān (“stone”). * The village in Norfolk derives from an unattested Old English personal name *Bucc + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Buxton in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 83% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Buxton in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

## People named Buxton

- Sarah G. Buxton, American actress
- Glen Buxton, American guitarist, songwriter (1947-1997)
- Frank Buxton, American actor (1930-2018)
- Byron Buxton, American baseball player (born 1993)
- Douglas Buxton, Australian sailor (1917–1984)
- Lewis Buxton, British association football player (born 1983)
- Richard Buxton, British botanist (1786-1865)

## Similar surnames

Bustamante, Boston, Bastian, Boughton, Baisden, Bastien, Bogdan, Becton, Bastin, Basden.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.