The surname Taunton
An English surname, carried by 1,405 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T535
Origin
English origin
From Old English Tantūn, from the name of the river Tone.
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 1,405 people named Taunton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 219,748 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,316.
Who is named Taunton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Taunton identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Taunton
Taunton has the Soundex code T535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T535.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Taunton come from?
- From Old English Tantūn, from the name of the river Tone.
- How common is the surname Taunton?
- 1,405 people in the United States had the surname Taunton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 219,748 Americans. It ranked 19,282nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Taunton?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Taunton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Taunton getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,316 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,405 in 2010, up 6.8%.