Elkington Family History
Elkington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from North or South Elkington in Lincolnshire from an Old English personal name (possibly Ēadlāc) + -ing denoting association + Old English tūn ‘farmstead settlement’. Elkington in Northamptonshire is unlikely to be the source of the surname for until c. 1617 it was called Eltington or Elteton.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022