Paxton

Where Paxton comes from

From Old English *Pæcces + tūn (literally “settlement of (a person named) *Pæcc”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Paxton
Along the way
  1. 1921
    First appearance
    #3,517 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1937
    Paxton Whitehead born
    British actor
  3. 1995
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1999
    Paxton Pomykal born
    American soccer player
  5. 2016
    Peak, #203
    1,993 babies named Paxton — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #338.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Paxton Pomykal · American soccer player, born 1999
  • Paxton Whitehead · British actor, 1937–2023
  • Paxton Lynch · American football quarterback, born 1994
  • Paxton Pattison Hibben · American writer and diplomat, 1880–1928

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.