The kennington Surname
kennington Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name for someone from a place called
Kennington in Greater London (formerly in Surrey), Oxfordshire, or
Kent. The first two are from the Old English personal name
Cena + -ing- (a connective particle denoting
association with) + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The place
in Kent is named from Old English cyne- ‘royal’ +
tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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