# Laxton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/laxton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An habitational surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,273 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,407 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 135,832 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.3% (2,119 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

A place name truncated from a great variety of predecessors, the place having been formerly known as Laxington, Lexington, Lexinton, and Lessington. The earliest attestations of the place name are found in the Domesday Book variously as Laxintone and Lexingtune; these Domesday forms derive from the Anglo-Saxon Leaxingatūn, from the Anglo Saxon personal name Leaxa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tun (“settlement”), so meaning "farmstead or estate of the people of a man called Leaxa".

## Who carries it

Share of people named Laxton in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Laxton in the United States.

## People named Laxton

- James Laxton, American cinematographer

## Similar surnames

Luxton, Laughton, Logsdon, Leighton, Lightner, Liston, Lichtenstein, Lichtenberg, Lichtenberger, Lichtman, Logston.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.