The harrington Surname

harrington Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places in Cumbria, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire. The first gets its name from Old English Haferingtun ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with someone called Hæfer’, a byname meaning ‘he-goat’. The second probably meant ‘settlement (Old English tun) of someone called Hæring’. Alternatively, the first element may have been Old English hæring ‘stony place’ or haring ‘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.
Irish (County Kerry and the West): adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty’, ‘powerful’.
Irish (County Kerry): adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOireachtaigh ‘descendant of Oireachtach’, a byname meaning ‘member of the assembly’ or ‘frequenting assemblies’.

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harrington Family Facts

Distribution of harrington Families in the US in 1920

Number of harrington families

838-1673

280-837

1-279

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Looking for my paternal Grandfather Daniel Peter Harrington in NY	jsloss2	1
HARRINGTON FAMILY FROM CORK.	kevinpope145	5
Edw. Harrington & Mary Dillon, Ireland (Cork?)	amich2	9
URL for Southern Harringtons	Letty Harrington	3
Info on Jasper Harrington	tjharring	3
Benjamin Harrington	PattiMuza88	0
The Marriage of Bersheba Harrington Smith and Thomas Lusk	russ_windle	0
Henry Arthur Harrington	bh1978	0
Looking for Patricia Louise Harrington born in Columbia TN around 1921	johnannatravis	0
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