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Origin Of The Surname Houston

Meaning Of The Surname Houston

From Hugh’s Town

Interesting Facts About Houston

Houston is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself can be broken down to ‘Hugh’ as in the forename and ‘tune’ the Old English word for a town, giving the place name the meaning ‘Hugh’s Town’.

Houston Statistics

Houston is the number 1433 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 7,553 share the surname Houston in the UK.

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