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houston Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place near Glasgow, Scotland, named with the genitive case of the medieval personal name Hugh + Middle English tune, toun ‘settlement’, ‘village’ (Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’). The landlord in question is a certain Hugo de Paduinan, who held the place c.1160. The Scottish surname is common in Ulster.
  2. Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uisdein, Mac Uistein (see McCutcheon).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of houston Families in the US in 1920
Number of houston families
 323-643
 108-322		 1-107
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