Cottington Family History
Cottington Name Meaning
from Cottenden in Ticehurst (Sussex) the medieval evidence for which is represented by the surnames cited below. The place-name probably means ‘woodland pasture associated with a man called Cotela’ from an Old English personal name *Cotela + the connective particle -ing- + denn ‘woodland pasture (especially for swine)’. occasionally a variant of Coddington .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016