Huxley

Where Huxley comes from

From the Old English personal name *Hucc + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The first element could also be husc (“insult, scorn, mockery”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Huxley
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Huxley through the years
  1. 2002
    First appearance
    #8,456 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2020
    Peak, #537
    526 babies named Huxley, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Huxley in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.