Paxton

Meanings

1. An English habitational surname from Old English.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A placename:
4. A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT9353).
5. A locale in the United States.
6. A city, the county seat of Ford County, Illinois; named for English gardener and architect Joseph Paxton.
7. A town in Florida.
8. A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts; named for Charles Paxton, a marshal of an admiralty court.
9. A village in Nebraska; named for rancher W. A. Paxton.
10. A census-designated place in Plumas County, California.
11. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
12. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

Etymology

From Old English *Pæcces + tūn (literally “settlement of (a person named) *Pæcc”).