Luxton is an English surname from a place name in Devon, traditionally read as "Lugg's farmstead", though most parents hear the Latin lux, "light", in its first syllable and the fashionable -ton of Paxton and Daxton in its second. It was almost unknown as a first name before the 2010s. In the United States Luxton ranked number 8568 in 2017 and has risen every year since to number 2016 in 2025, its best rank so far.