The surname Cawthon
A surname, carried by 2,671 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C350
Origin
Variant of Cawthorne
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,671 people named Cawthon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,592 Americans. That is down 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,717.
#11,733
rank among US surnames
2,671
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
-1.7%
change since 2000 (was #10,779)
Who is named Cawthon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Cawthon identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 79%
- Black (not Hispanic) 15%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Cawthon has the Soundex code C350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C350.
Questions
- Where does the surname Cawthon come from?
- Variant of Cawthorne
- How common is the surname Cawthon?
- 2,671 people in the United States had the surname Cawthon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,592 Americans. It ranked 11,733rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cawthon?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Cawthon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Cawthon getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,717 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,671 in 2010, down 1.7%.