Entry № 4394 · English origin

Huxley Huxley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HUKS-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Inhospitable meadow (Aldous Huxley + Brave New World)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "inhospitable meadow (aldous huxley + brave new world)".

Huxley is from the Old English place name in Cheshire — historically a surname. Kennedy and C.S. Lewis (November 22, 1963). The Huxleys are one of the most-distinguished intellectual dynasties in modern English history.

Inhospitable meadow (Aldous Huxley + Brave New World) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Huxley
Transliteration
Huxley
Pronunciation
/ ˈhʌks.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Huxley stands.

Huxley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Huxleys before her.

Real people
Aldous Huxley
English novelist (Brave New World).
1894 – 1963
In fiction
Huxley
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Huxley.

The number behind Huxley.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Huxley reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.