Braxton
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Braxton is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 52nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: person from Braxton, an unidentified English place, ‘Bracca’s farmstead’.
- USUnited States1 in 27K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 58K
- CACanada1 in 71K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- Sources
- 352 ●
- 1 in 27K ◐
across 2 countries
158K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
person from Braxton, an unidentified English place, ‘Bracca’s farmstead’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,268 | 144K rec. | 1 in 27K | 45K | Braxton | 352 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,014 | 4.8K rec. | — | 4 | Braxton | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,062 | 1.4K rec. | — | 17 | Braxton | 41 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,054 | 2K rec. | — | 130 | Braxton | 48 |
| JM Jamaica | #575 | 290 | 335 rec. | — | — | Braxton | 3 |
| LR Liberia | #52 | 241 | 804 rec. | — | — | Braxton | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 202 | 217 rec. | — | — | Braxton | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | 200 | 309 rec. | — | — | Braxton | 7 |
| GH Ghana | — | 169 | 179 rec. | — | — | Braxton | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | 164 | 235 rec. | — | — | Braxton | 11 |
| TH Thailand | — | 13 | 15 rec. | — | — | Braxton | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | 77 rec. | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 8 |
Roughly 12K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 27K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English119K88%
- Spanish4.7K3%
- 2.8K2%
- French1.1K1%
- German7351%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 118,697 | 88% |
| Spanish | 4,667 | 3% |
| 2,772 | 2% | |
| French | 1,092 | 1% |
| German | 735 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Braxton is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, place, so called from the gen. case of the OE personal name Brace (cf. Brackley) + OE tun enclosure, settlement. Vars.: Bre(e)de, Breeds; Breeder.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, place, so called from the gen. case of the OE personal 89 Brennand Bray
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1885 | 6 |
| 1899 | 5 |
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1910 | 7 |
| 1911 | 6 |
| 1912 | 13 |
| 1913 | 8 |
| 1914 | 20 |
| 1915 | 18 |
| 1916 | 22 |
| 1917 | 17 |
| 1918 | 25 |
| 1919 | 21 |
| 1920 | 24 |
| 1921 | 30 |
| 1922 | 17 |
| 1923 | 23 |
| 1924 | 19 |
| 1925 | 25 |
| 1926 | 24 |
| 1927 | 19 |
| 1928 | 30 |
| 1929 | 19 |
| 1930 | 23 |
| 1931 | 18 |
| 1932 | 20 |
| 1933 | 27 |
| 1934 | 25 |
| 1935 | 17 |
| 1936 | 23 |
| 1937 | 29 |
| 1938 | 20 |
| 1939 | 25 |
| 1940 | 19 |
| 1941 | 27 |
| 1942 | 17 |
| 1943 | 28 |
| 1944 | 16 |
| 1945 | 11 |
| 1946 | 11 |
| 1947 | 19 |
| 1948 | 22 |
| 1949 | 21 |
| 1950 | 15 |
| 1951 | 18 |
| 1952 | 17 |
| 1953 | 12 |
| 1954 | 18 |
| 1955 | 12 |
| 1956 | 13 |
| 1957 | 26 |
| 1958 | 13 |
| 1959 | 22 |
| 1960 | 15 |
| 1961 | 31 |
| 1962 | 14 |
| 1963 | 17 |
| 1964 | 17 |
| 1965 | 13 |
| 1966 | 17 |
| 1967 | 14 |
| 1968 | 14 |
| 1969 | 14 |
| 1970 | 21 |
| 1971 | 23 |
| 1972 | 19 |
| 1973 | 21 |
| 1974 | 29 |
| 1975 | 30 |
| 1976 | 30 |
| 1977 | 25 |
| 1978 | 32 |
| 1979 | 35 |
| 1980 | 34 |
| 1981 | 39 |
| 1982 | 50 |
| 1983 | 72 |
| 1984 | 63 |
| 1985 | 100 |
| 1986 | 114 |
| 1987 | 109 |
| 1988 | 136 |
| 1989 | 155 |
| 1990 | 201 |
| 1991 | 230 |
| 1992 | 254 |
| 1993 | 327 |
| 1994 | 507 |
| 1995 | 527 |
| 1996 | 593 |
| 1997 | 783 |
| 1998 | 837 |
| 1999 | 820 |
| 2000 | 814 |
| 2001 | 794 |
| 2002 | 837 |
| 2003 | 1,004 |
| 2004 | 1,581 |
| 2005 | 1,316 |
| 2006 | 1,605 |
| 2007 | 1,773 |
| 2008 | 1,940 |
| 2009 | 2,241 |
| 2010 | 2,293 |
| 2011 | 2,516 |
| 2012 | 3,018 |
| 2013 | 3,107 |
| 2014 | 3,364 |
| 2015 | 3,313 |
| 2016 | 3,315 |
| 2017 | 3,352 |
| 2018 | 3,016 |
| 2019 | 3,038 |
| 2020 | 2,785 |
| 2021 | 2,583 |
| 2022 | 2,397 |
| 2023 | 2,143 |
| 2024 | 2,176 |
| 2025 | 2,131 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 121 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Carter Braxtonb. 1736USAmerican politician (1736-1797), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Edward Kenneth Braxtonb. 1944USAmerican Roman Catholic prelate
- Stephanie Braxtonb. 1944USAmerican actress
- Anthony Braxtonb. 1945USAmerican musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
- Janice Lawrence Braxtonb. 1962USAmerican basketball player (born 1962)
- Toni Braxtonb. 1967USAmerican singer (born 1967)
- Traci Braxtonb. 1971USAmerican singer and media personality (1971–2022)
- Tamar Braxtonb. 1977USAmerican singer
- Mark Roberb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican YouTuber, engineer and inventor
- Kara Braxtonb. 1983USAmerican basketball player (1983–2026)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 33 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 325 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Braxton?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Braxton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Braxton have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Braxton in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled braxton.
- How common is Braxton compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Braxton is the 52nd most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Braxton mean?
- Recorded meaning: person from Braxton, an unidentified English place, ‘Bracca’s farmstead’
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Braxton” — the 52nd most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.