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    The surname Luxton

    An English place surname, carried by 546 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L235

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Luxton is more common than 75.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from the Old English personal name *Lugga + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Luxton 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 546 people named Luxton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 565,468 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 539.

    #40,144
    rank among US surnames
    546
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #38,587)

    Who is named Luxton

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

    95% of people named Luxton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Luxton

    Luxton has the Soundex code L235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L235.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Luxton come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from the Old English personal name *Lugga + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Luxton?
    546 people in the United States had the surname Luxton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 565,468 Americans. It ranked 40,144th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Luxton?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Luxton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Luxton?
    Luxton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Luxton getting more or less common?
    More common. 539 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 546 in 2010, up 1.3%.