Houston Family History
Houston Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Houston
Name Distribution of Houston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Houston families
 104 - 205  35 - 103 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Houston families
|
646 - 1,290 216 - 645 |
1 - 215 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Houston Family Origin
Houston Emigration Information (US)
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Houston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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