The surname Thaxton
A surname, carried by 4,711 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T235
Origin
Variant of Theakston.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,711 people named Thaxton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,537 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,510.
#7,104
rank among US surnames
4,711
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+4.5%
change since 2000 (was #6,871)
Who is named Thaxton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
73% of people named Thaxton identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 73%
- Black (not Hispanic) 22%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Thaxton
Thaxton has the Soundex code T235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T235.
Questions
- Where does the surname Thaxton come from?
- Variant of Theakston.
- How common is the surname Thaxton?
- 4,711 people in the United States had the surname Thaxton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,537 Americans. It ranked 7,104th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Thaxton?
- In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Thaxton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Thaxton getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,510 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,711 in 2010, up 4.5%.