The claxton Surname
claxton Name Meaning and History
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 tun ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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