as a Last Name
- 10,389
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Ellington
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Northumbria, and North Yorkshire; most are so named from Old English Ellingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Ella’, a short form of the various compound names with a first element ælf ‘elf’, but the one in Kent has its first element from the Old English byname Ealda meaning ‘old’.
| 2,989th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,389
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Ellington per capita
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