Moxon

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Moxon by the numbers

Moxon was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 19 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Moxon

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 Moxon. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Maxongreatest; a form of Maximus95 in the US (2017)
  • Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
  • Maxtongreatest stone; a form of Maxon374 in the US (2017)
  • Myronmyrrh, sweet oil115 in the US (2017)
  • Maxsonson of Maximus; the greatest one55 in the US (2017)
  • Maxengreatest; a variant of maximus or max42 in the US (2017)

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