Meaning & origin
What it means
Buxton goes back to Old English būgan, meaning “to bend, bow.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Buxton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 83 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #6,872 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +66%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,872 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,594 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.
Buxton’s family of names
In English usage, Buxton as a surname has an alternative spelling in Buckstone.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Buxton
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Buxton, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Luxton
“enclosure; settlement, town”
>99% boys
Whitton
“white” · “enclosure; settlement, town”
>99% boys
Hendon
“high” · “hill”
>99% boys
Roxton
“rook” · “hill”
>99% boys
Loxton
“enclosure; settlement, town”
>99% boys
Axton
“stone”
>99% boys
Brixton
Brixton is a masculine given name from Old English.
95% boys · 5% girls
Dutton
“hill”
97% boys · 3% girls