as a Last Name
- 8,561
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Buffington
Meaning & Origins
Possibly a respelling of the English habitational name Bovington, from Bovington in Dorset, which is named with the Old English personal name Bōfa + -ing- implying association with + tūn ‘settlement’.
| 3,588th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,561
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Buffington per capita
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