as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from a place in Cheshire which is apparently so called from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Hucc + Old English lēah ‘wood, clearing’. Use as a given name was in some cases in honour of the English biologist Thomas Huxley (1825–95), a leading supporter of the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin.
| 42,958th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Dozens
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 40
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Huxley per capita
- 2008
- marked the height of its popularity
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