Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from the name of a town in Cheshire, Huxley combines the Old English element leah, meaning “woodland” or “clearing,” with a first element that might be hux, “insult” or “scorn.” A notable bearer of the surname was the British author Aldous Huxley (1894–1963).
20062006: 8 births, rank #8,732
2007: 15 births, rank #5,661
2008: 28 births, rank #3,744
2009: 28 births, rank #3,721
2010: 42 births, rank #2,826
20112011: 63 births, rank #2,105
2012: 88 births, rank #1,711
2013: 82 births, rank #1,763
2014: 126 births, rank #1,355
2015: 215 births, rank #958
20162016: 259 births, rank #867
2017: 291 births, rank #792
2018: 379 births, rank #666
2019: 471 births, rank #588
2020: 526 births, rank #537
20212021: 476 births, rank #586
2022: 457 births, rank #611
2023: 453 births, rank #619
2024: 346 births, rank #743
20252025: 357 births, rank #736
Huxley rose from #743 to #736 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2020, with 526 births.