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Harrington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Cumbria,
Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire. The first gets its name from Old
English Haferingtun ‘settlement (Old English tun)
associated with someone called Hæfer’, a byname meaning ‘he-goat’.
The second probably meant ‘settlement (Old English tun) of
someone called Hæring’. Alternatively, the first element may have
been Old English hæring ‘stony place’ or haring
‘gray wood’. The last, recorded in Domesday Book as Arintone
and in 1184 as Hederingeton, is most probably named with an
unattested Old English personal name, Heathuhere.Irish
(County Kerry and the West): adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a
personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty’,
‘powerful’.Irish (County Kerry): adopted as an Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil,
‘descendant of Iongardal’.Irish: reduced Anglicized form
of Gaelic Ó hOireachtaigh ‘descendant of
Oireachtach’, a byname meaning ‘member of the assembly’ or
‘frequenting assemblies’.
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Name Distribution of Harrington Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harrington families
 838 - 1,673  280 - 837 |
 1 - 279  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Harrington families
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793 - 1,583 265 - 792 |
1 - 264 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harrington families
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19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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