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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named Claxton, for example in County Durham, Norfolk, and North Yorkshire, probably from the Old Norse personal name Klakkr (see Clack) or possibly from Old English clacc ‘hill’ + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.

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