# Saxon (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,576 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,685 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 40,753 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.8% (7,092 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈsæksən/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsan, plural of Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. Also from Saxoun, through Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”). All from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Saxon 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) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 14% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Saxon in the United States.

## People named Saxon

- John Saxon, American actor (1936-2020)
- Rolf Saxon, American actor
- Sky Saxon, American singer (1937–2009)
- Edward Saxon, American film producer

## Similar surnames

Saxena, Sisson, Sison, Sahagun, Seguin, Session, Scoggin, Sagan, Scogin, Sekhon, Sachsen.

## 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.