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English
Etymology
From Old English Pæcces + tūn (literally “settlement of (a person named) Pæcc”).
Proper noun
Paxton (countable and uncountable, plural Paxtons)
- An English habitational surname from Old English.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A placename:
- A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT9353).
- A locale in the United States.
- A city, the county seat of Ford County, Illinois; named for English gardener and architect Joseph Paxton.
- A town in Florida.
- A town in Massachusetts; named for Charles Paxton, a marshal of an admiralty court.
- A village in Nebraska; named for rancher W. A. Paxton.
- A census-designated place in Plumas County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- A village in New South Wales, Australia.
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