Saxon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) From the medieval personal name Saxon, literally ‘person from Saxony’; (ii) different form of Saxton
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sæksən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saxon is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) From the medieval personal name Saxon, literally ‘person from Saxony’; (ii) different form of Saxton.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Saxon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Saxton (West Riding of Yorkshire) or Saxton Hall and Saxon Street (Cambridgeshire); first attested Jordan de Saxton, Simon de Sexton 1208 Cur
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Old English; of the Saxons or people of the sword; boy/girl
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, 2. from the medieval given name Saxon, originally an ethnic byname for someone from Saxony; cf. Sachs i.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, medieval given name Saxon, originally an ethnic byname for someone from Saxony; cf. Sachs i .
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lyle Saxonb. 1891USAmerican journalist
- Charles Saxonb. 1920USAmerican cartoonist (1920-1988)
- Kurt Saxonb. 1932USAmerican writer
- John Saxonb. 1936USAmerican actor (1936-2020)
- Sky Saxonb. 1937USAmerican singer (1937–2009)
- Rolf Saxonb. 1955USAmerican actor
- James Saxonb. 1955GBBritish actor (1955–2003)
- Edward Saxonb. 1956USAmerican film producer
- James Saxonb. 1966USAmerican football player and coach (born 1966)
- Isaiah Saxonb. 1983USAmerican film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saxon mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) From the medieval personal name Saxon, literally ‘person from Saxony’; (ii) different form of Saxton. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Saxon have the most bearers?
- Saxon is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- How do you pronounce Saxon?
- A machine transcription gives /sæksən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Saxon?
- In the etymology graph, Sax is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Saxon?
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saxon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.