Huxon is likely an English surname-style name meaning son of Huck or Hugh.
Huxon draws its strongest etymology from the Old English place-name tradition, sitting in a family alongside Huxley — formed from a personal name *Hucc* (a short form of names beginning with *Hugh*, itself from Germanic *hug*, meaning "heart" or "mind") combined with *lēah*, a woodland clearing. The Huxley family of Cheshire gave the surname to generations of English descendants, most famously the Victorian biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, who became Charles Darwin's fiercest public defender and coined the word "agnostic," and his grandson Aldous Huxley, whose novel *Brave New World* (1932) remains one of the twentieth century's most read and debated works of speculative fiction. The -on ending transforms the surname into a given name with the clean, strong monosyllabic suffix now popular in names like Hudson, Colton, and Weston.
Hudson itself derives from "Hugh's son," so Huxon and Hudson share overlapping etymological territory — both trace ultimately to that same Germanic root *hug*, heart and mind together. The -on ending also lends a slight heroic or fantastical quality that suits the modern taste for names that sound capable and individual. As a given name, Huxon is largely a twenty-first century coinage, most visible in English-speaking countries since around 2010 as parents sought alternatives to the increasingly common Hudson and Huxley.
It inherits the intellectual associations of the Huxley family name while wearing them more lightly, functioning as a fresh first name rather than a consciously literary reference. For parents who admire curiosity, scientific thinking, and literary culture, Huxon carries that legacy without requiring explanation.