Covington Family History
Covington Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Covinton in Lanarkshire, first
recorded in the late 12th century in the Latin form Villa
Colbani, and twenty years later as Colbaynistun. By 1422 it
had been collapsed to Cowantoun, and at the end of the 15th
century it first appears in the form Covingtoun. It is
nevertheless clearly named with the personal name Colban (see
Coleman 1) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’; Colban was
a follower of David, Prince of Cumbria, in about 1120.English: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire (now
Cambridgeshire) named Covington, from an Old English personal name
Cofa + Old English -ing- denoting association +
tun ‘settlement’.
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Name Distribution of Covington Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Covington families
 224 - 446  75 - 223 |
 1 - 74  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Covington families
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67 - 131 23 - 66 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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