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Caxton

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Caxton ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from a place in Cambridgeshire. The place name derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse byname Kakkr (apparently a derivative of kokkr ‘lump’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The surname is well known, as it was borne by William Caxton (?1422–91), who established the first printing press in England, but the reason for its recent adoption as a given name is not clear.

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Caxton

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Caxton Cambs. Caustone [sic] 1086 (DB), Kakestune c.1150. Probably ‘farmstead of a man called *Kakkr’. OScand. pers. name + OE tūn.

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