Tarrington Family History
Tarrington Name Meaning
variant of Torrington . perhaps sometimes from Tarrington (Herefs) but there is no clear link between the 1379 example and the 18th-century Staffs and Lancs name cited below which may instead belong with (1). The place-name is recorded as Tatintune in 1086 and probably derives from the Old English personal name Tāta + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016