Buffington Family History
Buffington Name Meaning
Possibly a respelling of the English habitational name
Bovington, from Bovington in Dorset, which is named with the
Old English personal name Bofa + -ing- implying
association with + tun ‘settlement’. adm.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Buffington Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Buffington families
 101 - 199  34 - 100 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Buffington Family Origin
Buffington Immigration Information
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Buffington Family Occupations
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