The surname Croxton
An English place surname, carried by 1,861 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C623
Origin
English origin
From either the Old Norse personal name Krókr or Old English crōc (“nook”) + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Croxton 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 1,861 people named Croxton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 165,903 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,688.
Who is named Croxton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Croxton identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 72%
- Black (not Hispanic) 24%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Croxton has the Soundex code C623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C623.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Croxton come from?
- From either the Old Norse personal name Krókr or Old English crōc (“nook”) + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Croxton?
- 1,861 people in the United States had the surname Croxton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 165,903 Americans. It ranked 15,681st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Croxton?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Croxton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Croxton?
- Croxton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Croxton getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,688 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,861 in 2010, up 10%.