Huxtable

Huxtable is a surname, most widely recognized from *The Cosby Show*, where the Huxtables were an affluent African American family in Brooklyn.

The name became cultural shorthand for upwardly mobile Black family life in 1980s America.

Ada Louise Huxtable was an influential architecture critic at *The New York Times*.

sitcom

Cliff

Boy's name

  • TheoGreek-rooted male nickname
  • RudyMasculine given name
  • VanessaFeminine name, butterfly genus

Olivia · NBC · 1980s · Brooklyn · brownstone · Heathcliff · obstetrician · attorney · Bill Cosby · Lisa Bonet

surname

genealogy

Study of family descent

family tree · descent · kinship · last name · British · English · pedigree · forebears · bloodline

Categories
Opposites
tv family dysfunction vs. idealization

HuxtableGallagher

Bundy · Roy · Evans · Bunker · Simpson

image vs. reality (meta-cultural)

HuxtableCosby

Convicted entertainer surname

facade · illusion · hypocrisy · scandal

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG