Thaxton
A surname most likely from a place name, referring to someone who came from or lived near Thaxton.
The #7,104 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 65,537 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Thaxton is an English surname of locational origin. It most likely comes from a place name built with an Old English personal name or descriptive element plus the common place-name ending -ton, meaning "farmstead" or "settlement." In this kind of surname, the original sense would have been "the person from Thaxton" or "of Thaxton."
History
English locational surnames became hereditary in the Middle Ages, especially when people moved away from their home village. Thaxton is comparatively uncommon today, but it survived strongly enough to be established in the United States, where it appears in census records and family lines of English descent. Some bearers may also have inherited the name through spelling variation from similar-sounding local surnames.
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Fun fact
The ending -ton is one of the most common clues that a surname began as a place name, since it usually pointed to a farm or settlement.