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edgington Name Meaning and History

English (West Midlands): probably a habitational name, of uncertain origin. It may be from a lost place, so named as the ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with Ecgi’, a short form of the various compound names with the first element ecg ‘edge’, ‘point’ (of a weapon). Alternatively, it may be a variant of Erdington (see Edrington).

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Distribution of edgington Families in the US in 1920
Number of edgington families
 57-112
 20-56
 1-19
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