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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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claxton Family Facts

Distribution of claxton Families in the US in 1920
Number of claxton families
 29-56
 10-28		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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