The maxton Surname
maxton Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from a place so called in Roxburghshire
(Borders), named as the ‘settlement (tun) of Maccus’. There
is also a place of this name in Kent, England, but it does not seem to
have given rise to a surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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