Houston

Variation – Juston
Racial Origin – Scottish
Source – A locality

The family names of Houston and Huston may in some few instances be a corruption or variation of the form Hughson, but not in many.  It is easy often to account for the introduction and elimination of many letters from given and family names in the course of their developemnet. The letter “t,” for instance, is readily eliminated.  But it’s not easily introduced, and the change from Hughson, or Huson, to Huston is not a natural one.

Huston, or Huston (the spellings are interchangeable) have developed as family names from the place name of Houston. It is a parish in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Tradition has it that the name originated from one Hugh Padvinan, who, in the reign of Malcolm IV, of Scotland, about the year 11650 A.D., received grants of land at this place in the barony of Hilpeter, from Baldwin of Biggar, who was then Sheriff of Lanark.