Gender: Boy
Origin: English
Meaning: Hick’s town or the settlement of the brave ruler
Popularity: Not in the U.S. top 1,000 names
Hixton Name Meaning and Origin
Hixton is a name meaning "Hick’s town or the settlement of the brave ruler", from English origin.
Hixton is a name primarily used as a surname and is rare as a first name. It is masculine in form and has something of the appearance of being a modern invented name; yet, it has a long history. Hixton most likely comes from a place name in England and is derived from Old English elements. The first part is probably hick, a variant of the male given name Richard. Hick itself is an Old English word that means what its modern English cognate "hick" means: an unsophisticated person. Like Richard, hick also means brave or strong. The second part, ton, is a common Old English place-name element that means "town" or (in smaller settlements) "enclosure" or "settlement." If Hixton means what it most likely means, then in Old English it would have been rendered as something like Hicctūn.