Entry № 8048 · English origin

Paxton Paxton — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAKS-tuhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Peace town (Bill Paxton; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "peace town (bill paxton; modern unisex)".

Paxton is from the Old English place name — Pœcc's tūn (peace town). Paxton Lynch's stadium career parallels modern football trajectory.

Peace town (Bill Paxton; modern unisex) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Paxton
Transliteration
Paxton
Pronunciation
/ ˈpæks.tən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Paxton stands.

Paxton 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.

Paxtons before her.

Real people
Bill Paxton
American actor (Titanic, Aliens).
1955 – 2017
Sir Joseph Paxton
English Crystal Palace architect.
1803 – 1865
In fiction
Paxton
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Paxton.

The number behind Paxton.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paxton reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.