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huntington Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places so called, named with the genitive plural huntena of Old English hunta ‘hunter’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’ or dun ‘hill’ (the forms in -ton and -don having become inextricably confused). A number of bearers of this name may well derive it from Huntingdon, now in Cambridgeshire (formerly the county seat of the old county of Huntingdonshire), which is named from the genitive case of Old English hunta ‘huntsman’, perhaps used as a personal name, + dun ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of huntington Families in the US in 1920
Number of huntington families
 107-211
 36-106
 1-35
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