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saxon Name Meaning and History

  1. variant of Saxton.
  2. from the medieval personal name Saxon, originally an ethnic byname for someone from Saxony.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of saxon Families in the US in 1920
Number of saxon families
 69-136
 24-68
 1-23
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