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kennington Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name for someone from a place called Kennington in Greater London (formerly in Surrey), Oxfordshire, or Kent. The first two are from the Old English personal name Cena + -ing- (a connective particle denoting association with) + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The place in Kent is named from Old English cyne- ‘royal’ + tun.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kennington Families in the US in 1920
Number of kennington families
 11-20
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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