Baxton
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Baxton by the numbers
Baxton was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 8 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Baxton
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Baxton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Braxtonbadger's homestead; place name3,350 in the US (2017)
- Bartonpoultry yard; farmyard9 in the US (2017)
- Buxtonbow-shaped settlement or fortress8 in the US (2017)
- Bexton12 in the US (2017)
- BostonBoston town; place name used as given name425 in the US (2017)
- BrixtonBeorhtsige's settlement; London neighborhood257 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Baxton
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