Last name: HERRINGTON

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HERRINGTON : This last name is indexed 33,555 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

HERRINGTON : English:: 1: habitational name from Heronden in Tenterden (Kent) or Herrington in Houghton (Durham). The Kent placename may derive from an Old English personal name Hȳra + Old English connective -ing- + denn ‘pasture’ while the Durham placename may come from Old English hæring ‘rocky place’ (from hær ‘rock heap of stones’ + the placename forming suffix -ing) or hæren ‘rocky’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.2: variant of Harrington.

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