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covington Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name from Covinton in Lanarkshire, first recorded in the late 12th century in the Latin form Villa Colbani, and twenty years later as Colbaynistun. By 1422 it had been collapsed to Cowantoun, and at the end of the 15th century it first appears in the form Covingtoun. It is nevertheless clearly named with the personal name Colban (see Coleman 1) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’; Colban was a follower of David, Prince of Cumbria, in about 1120.
  2. English: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) named Covington, from an Old English personal name Cofa + Old English -ing- denoting association + tun ‘settlement’.

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Distribution of covington Families in the US in 1920
Number of covington families
 224-446
 75-223		 1-74
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JERRY COVINGTON pwatt120 2
"Slave Narratives" (Covington/Richmond Co., NC) Very interesting! jclacoss 0
Book on Covington's helencovington7 31
Info on L.S. Covington Ndaldridge1 1
The Covingtons of Stamping Ground Kentucky KeithMcDowell90 2
info on Covington family larry bair 12
Covington Family Marlboro County South Carolina forneen 1
Covingtons from KY>TN>MO>TX JWCov 3
Joe S. Covington l_deweber 2
Ada Maxwell Covington Golitlygal 0
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