as a Last Name
- 75,196
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Harrington
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from places in Cumbria, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire. The first gets its name from Old English Haferingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with someone called Hæfer’, a byname meaning ‘he-goat’. The second probably meant ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of someone called Hæring’. Alternatively, the first element may have been Old English hæring ‘stony place’ or hāring ‘gray wood’. The last, recorded in Domesday Book as Arintone and in 1184 as Hederingeton, is most probably named with an unattested Old English personal name, Heathuhere.
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 75,196
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Harrington per capita
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