Given name & surname
Broxton
“burial place”
Broxton is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Broxton goes back to Old English burgæsn, meaning “burial place.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Broxton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 296
- 296 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −84%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 30 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 312 as a first name in 2020; 1,319 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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