Subscribe >
Help
Member Login
Username Password (Forgot?)
Look up another surname
The ellington Surname

ellington Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Northumbria, and North Yorkshire; most are so named from Old English Ellingtun ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with Ella’, a short form of the various compound names with a first element ælf ‘elf’, but the one in Kent has its first element from the Old English byname Ealda meaning ‘old’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Learn the meaning and history of your first name
Share this page with friends and family

The ellington name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the ellington family name as far back in history as possible.

ellington Family Facts

Are you a Facebook user? Add ellington family facts to your Facebook profile.
Distribution of ellington Families in the US in 1920
Number of ellington families
 101-199
 34-100		 1-33
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

Click on a state to view ellington census records

Year

How is this helpful?

  • You can decide where (in which states) to start searching for ellington records.
  • You can see how ellington families moved over time by selecting different Census years.

What do I do next?

The information for this map came from Ancestry.com’s US Federal Census Collection.
  • Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, residence and occupation.
  • Click here to search ellington census records.

More resources for your ellington family history

Ellington message board


Threads: 204 - Messages: 694
ThreadAuthorReplies
Abraham Ellington/Martha Ellen Blair PamEllington 18
Ellingtons in Texas Pat Rogers 6
John ELLINGTON will, Amelia Co VA Suzy-Q 12
Obituary JosephEllingtonJr74 0
Owen R Ellington/Doug Ellington Teresa Ellington-Johnson 0
Moses Ellington /or William R (Roscoe) Ellington Doug 2
Leona Mae Ellington Cook kaelynnea 4
Descendants of John Ellington,Jr. Amelia Co, VA Edith A Ellington 52
Ellington, Paul Lewis; Oregon Hill Volunteer Fire Dept. North Carolina, 01/01/2008 volunteer_spirit 0
Ellington Book of information - Ga MelissaTurner24 30
Viewing 1-10 of 204 |  Go to the full board

Start your FREE family tree. We'll start searching.

Enter a few simple facts about your family. We'll use what you enter to try and find more.

Begin your family tree with your name:


Member Connections

More Tools and Resources