Meaning & origin
What it means
Exton goes back to Old English Ex, meaning “River Exe.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English Ex (“River Exe”), from Old English Ēastseaxe (“East Saxons”), from Old English oxa (“ox”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Exton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 61 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 454 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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