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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places called Laxton, in East Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Northamptonshire. The Northamptonshire place name is formed from an Old English personal name Leaxa + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other examples were named with Leaxa + -ing- (denoting association with) + tūn.

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