Saxon

Saxon is the given name of:
Saxon W. Holt (1871-1940), American politician
Saxon Rice (born 1976), Australian politician
Saxon Sharbino (born 1999), American actress
Saxon White (born 1934), American medical researcher and academic and former rugby union player

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C. 1200, from Late Latin Saxonem (nominative Saxo; also source of French Saxon, Spanish Sajon, Italian Sassone), usually found in plural Saxones, probably from a West Germanic tribal name (represented by Old English Seaxe, Old High German Sahsun, German Sachse "Saxon"), traditionally regarded as meaning literally "warrior with knives" (compare Old English seax, Old Frisian, Old Norse sax "knife, short sword, dagger," Old High German Saxnot, name of a war-god), from Proto-Germanic *sahsam "knife," from PIE root *sek- "to cut." But Watkins considers this doubtful. The word figures in the well-known story, related by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who got it from Nennius, of the treacherous slaughter by the Anglo-Saxons of their British hosts:Accordingly they all met at the time and place appointed, and began to treat of peace; and when a fit opportunity offered for executing his villany, Hengist cried out, "Nemet oure Saxas," and the same instant seized Vortigern, and held him by his cloak. The Saxons, upon the signal given, drew their daggers, and falling upon the princes, who little suspected any such design, assassinated them to the number of four hundred and sixty barons and consuls ....The OED editors helpfully point out that the correct Old English (with an uninflected plural) would be nimað eowre seax. For other Germanic national names that may have derived from characteristic tribal weapons, see Frank, Lombard. As an adjective from 1560s. Still in 20c. used by Celtic speakers to mean "an Englishman" (Welsh Sais, plural Seison "an Englishman;" Seisoneg "English"). In reference to the modern German state of Saxony (German Sachsen, French Saxe) it is attested from 1630s. Saxon is the source of the -sex in Essex, Sussex, etc. (compare Middlesex, from Old English Middel-Seaxe "Middle Saxons"). Bede distinguished the Anglo-Saxons, who conquered much of southern Britain, from the Ealdesaxe "Old Saxons," who stayed in Germany.

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Sharp blade, from Saxonny, swordsman.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Saxon Sharbino	1999	American actress
2	Alex Saxon	1987	American actor
3	Sky Saxon	1937	American musician
4	Kurt Saxon	1932	American writer
5	Rolf Saxon	1955	American actor
6	Arthur Saxon	1878	German strongman
7	Eileen Saxon	1942	Sufferer of blue baby syndrome
8	Edward Saxon	1956	American film producer
9	Mike Saxon	1962	American football player
10	John Saxon	1923	American educator
11	Saxon Sydney-Turner	1880	British civil servant
12	David S. Saxon	1920	American physivist
13	Saxon Trainor	1969	American acting coach
14	Charles Saxon	1920	Cartoonist
15	Johan Lindström Saxon	1859
16	Lyle Saxon	1891	American journalist
17	John the Old Saxon	0885	French saint
18	Kate Saxon		British theatre director
19	Richard Saxon	1942	Architect
20	Saxon Rice	1976	Australian politician
21	Avon Saxon
22	James J. Saxon	1914	Comptroller of the United States
23	Bruno the Saxon	1000	Saxon cleric
24	Saxon White	1934	Australian rugby union player
25	Saxon Winston Holt	1871	American politician
26	Mack Saxon	1901	American football player and coach, basketball coach, college athletics administrator
27	Peregrin Saxon
28	Isaiah Saxon	1983
29	Henry Saxon	1918	English painter
30	Saxon McEwan	1865	Scottish rugby union player
31	James Saxon	1772	British painter
32	Lisa Nehus Saxon
33	Bobby Saxon	1962	American politician
34	Luther Saxon	1916	American tenor
35	Elizabeth Lyle Saxon	1832	American suffragist
36	Leslie Saxon		Professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria
37	Hugh Saxon	1869	American actor
38	Saxon Gregory-Hunt	1993
39	Saxon Irvine	1986