Last name: CARRINGTON
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CARRINGTON : This last name is indexed 71,055 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CARRINGTON : 1: English: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire) called Carrington probably named with an unattested Old English personal name Cāra + -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’.2: Scottish: habitational name from a place in Midlothian named Carrington probably from Old English Cēriheringa-tūn ‘settlement of Cērihere's people’.
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