Variant of Houston, meaning 'Hugh's town,' a Scottish place name.
Hueston is a variant orthography of Houston, a name that carries the full weight of American frontier mythology in its consonants. The surname originates from a Scottish place name — Hughston or Houston in Renfrewshire — meaning literally "Hugh's town" or "settlement of Hugh," where Hugh is the Old French and Germanic given name (from Hugo, meaning "heart" or "mind"). Scottish settlers carried it to Ulster during the Plantation of Ireland, and then across the Atlantic to the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, where it took root in the Scots-Irish communities of the Appalachian frontier.
The name's most towering historical bearer is Sam Houston (1793–1863), soldier, politician, and one of the most singular figures in American history. S. Senator, and Governor of Texas — the only American ever to have been governor of two different states.
The city of Houston, Texas, the fourth-largest in the United States, was named in his honor in that same year of victory, ensuring that his name would echo across American geography for as long as the country endures. The Hueston spelling adds a subtle refinement, softening the name's frontier bravado with a slight Old World formality — the -ue- digraph giving it an almost French elegance. It's a choice that honors the name's rugged American heritage while signaling a parent's attention to the finer grain of letters, a name with boots on the ground and ink on the page.