Harrington Family History
Harrington Name Meaning
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Harrington
Name Distribution of Harrington Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harrington families
 793 - 1,583  265 - 792 |
 1 - 264  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harrington families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Harrington Family Origin
Harrington Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Harrington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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