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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, and Staffordshire named Croxton, from the Old Scandinavian personal name Krókr (see Crook 1) or an Old English word crōc ‘nook’ + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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