Axtent is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Axtent
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

Variation of the Axon. Axton, a hundred in Kent.

Axtent is variation of Acton. Oak-town.

The is form of Acton. One who came from Acton meaning a homestead by the oaks, or, in some cases, Aca's homestead, the name of many place in England.

Variant of the Acton. The Gazetteer mentions fifteen parishes or townships so called, and there are many other minor localities. The Actons of Acton, in Ombersley, county of Worcester, are said to have been settled there in Saxon times. They were certainly there temp. Henry III.

Axtent is a variant form of Acton. Scholar Shirley says, that the Actons of Aldenham, baronets, spring from Engelard de Acton, of Acton Pigot and Acton Burnell, who was admitted on the roll of guild-merchants of Shrewsbury in 1209. General Acton, prime minister to the King of Naples for twenty-nine years, commencing in 1778, was of this family.

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