The surname Cayton
An English place surname, carried by 2,413 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C350
Origin
English origin
From the Old English personal name *Cǣga + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Cayton 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 2,413 people named Cayton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 127,951 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,265.
Who is named Cayton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Cayton identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 5.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Cayton has the Soundex code C350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C350.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Cayton come from?
- From the Old English personal name *Cǣga + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Cayton?
- 2,413 people in the United States had the surname Cayton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,951 Americans. It ranked 12,785th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cayton?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Cayton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Cayton?
- Cayton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Cayton getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,265 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,413 in 2010, up 6.5%.