Meaning and Origin
What does the name Saxon mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- According to a user from Australia, the name Saxon is of Anglo-Saxon origin and means "Sword".
- A submission from Texas, U.S. says the name Saxon means "Short sword".
- According to a user from the United States, the name Saxon is of Anglo-Saxon origin and means "Originating from Saxony, the proto Germanic tribe which settled Britain after the Romans reign had ended".
- A submission from Australia says the name Saxon means "God".
- One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
- Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.
- A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.
- One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
- The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.
Etymology: L. Saxo, pl. Saxones, from the Saxon national name; cf. AS. pl. Seaxe Seaxan, fr. seax a knife, a short sword, a dagger (akin to OHG. sahs, and perhaps to L. saxum rock, stone, knives being originally made of stone); and cf. G. Sachse, pl. Sachsen. Cf. Saxifrage
- A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest
- Of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language ("Saxon princes" and "for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one")
Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; Saxon, from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Middle English *Saxon, Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxonem, accusative of Saxo (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-Germanic *sahsô, probably originally a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”). More at sax.
- The language of the ancient Saxons.
- The dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
- A surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
- A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
- A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
- (uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
- (Ireland, Wales, poetic) An English/British person.
- A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
Saxon was also found in the following language(s): French