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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from Babington in Somerset or Great or Little Bavington in Northumberland, named with the Old English personal name Babba (see Babb) + the connective particle -ing- ‘associated with’, ‘named after’ + tūn ‘settlement’.

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