Huxton is a modern American name that blends Huxley with the surname ending -ton, as in Paxton and Braxton. Huxley is an Old English place name meaning "Hucc's clearing", so Huxton is usually read as "Hucc's town". It belongs to the recent wave of two-syllable surname-style names ending in -ton. In the United States Huxton was almost unused before 2015, when it ranked number 3618; it peaked at number 1258 in 2022 and stands at number 1412 in 2025.