Baxendale
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably ‘person from Baxenden’, Lancashire, with -dale substituted for -den
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Baxendale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 684K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 6.3M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 684K (inferred from the name graph)
486 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably ‘person from Baxenden’, Lancashire, with -dale substituted for -den.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baxendale counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 486 | 1 in 684K | 510 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Baxendale | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
486 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Baxendale is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Baxenden near Accrington. This means ‘bakestone valley’, from OE bcecstan bakestone (a flat stone on which bread was baked) + denu valley. ME dale was sometimes substituted for OE denu in northern placenames.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, from Baxenden, Lancashire
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, From Baxenden (La).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Baxendaleb. 1785transport entrepreneur 1785-1872
- Joseph Francis Noel Baxendaleb. 1877(born 1877)
- Leo Baxendaleb. 1930GBcartoonist (1930–2017)
- Trevor Baxendaleb. 1966GBnovelist from England
- Dawn Baxendaleb. 1967GBNew Zealand-based British local government executive
- Helen Baxendaleb. 1970GBBritish actress
- James Baxendaleb. 1992GBEnglish footballer (born 1992)
- James BaxendaleGBBritish association football player
- Sallie BaxendaleBritish neuropsychologist
- Ray BaxendaleNZNew Zealand rugby league footballer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 510 | #45,217 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 486 | #44,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 437 | #46,000 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #308,099 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Baxendale mean, and where does it come from?
- probably ‘person from Baxenden’, Lancashire, with -dale substituted for -den. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Baxendale have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 486 people named Baxendale, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Baxendale most common?
- Baxendale is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 684 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Baxendale?
- In the United States, the national register counted 486 people named Baxendale in 2010, about 1 in 684 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baxendaleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Baxendale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.