The houston Surname
houston Name Meaning and History
- 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.
- 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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