Given name & surname
Luxton
“enclosure; settlement, town”
Luxton is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Luxton goes back to a word meaning “enclosure; settlement, town.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Luxton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 318
- 318 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 75 babies
- 2025
- 75
- #2,016 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +369%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 75 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,016 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (8). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 560 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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