Burrington Family History
Burrington Name Meaning
English (Devon and Somerset): habitational name from any of the places called Burrington for example in Somerset Devon and Herefordshire. The first and last are named with Old English burh ‘fortified place’ + tūn ‘farmstead enclosure’; the second is recorded in Domesday Book as Bernintone ‘estate associated with a man called Beorn’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022