Updated June 9, 2019 Find Baby Names Boy name origins & meanings Old English : From where the oxen ford Boy name variations Oxford Oxford - 14% this year Masculine Rare READ MORE DETAILS Oxon Oxon 0 % this year Masculine Rare READ MORE DETAILS Family name origins & meanings English : habitational name from Oxton in Nottinghamshire, named from Old English oxa ‘oxen’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.