as a Last Name
- 11,145
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Paxton
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and English: habitational name from places in the former county of Berwickshire and in Cambridgeshire, so named from the Old English personal name Pæcc + tūn ‘settlement’.
| 2,784th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,145
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Paxton per capita
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