Pennington Family History
Pennington Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire and Cumbria): habitational name from
places called Pennington, in Lancashire, Cumbria, and Hampshire. The
latter two are so called from Old English pening ‘penny’
(Penny) (used as a byname or from a tribute due on the land) +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The place of this name in the
parish of Leigh in Lancashire is recorded in the 13th century as
Pinington and Pynington, and may be from Old English
Pinningtun ‘settlement (tun) associated with a man
named Pinna’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Pennington Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pennington families
 149 - 296  50 - 148 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pennington families
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1,590 - 3,177 531 - 1,589 |
1 - 530 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pennington families
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16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pennington Family Origin
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Pennington Family Occupations
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