The edgington Surname
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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