The hoisington Surname
hoisington Name Meaning and History
Perhaps an altered form of Horsington, an English
habitational name, from places so named in Somerset and
Lincolnshire. The first is named from Old English hors-þegn
‘horsekeeper’, ‘groom’ + tun ‘farmstead’, while the second
is named in Domesday Book as Horsintone ‘farmstead (Old English
tun) associated with (-ing-) a man called
Horsa’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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