Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name, possibly a variant of Hannington, which is from places so named in Hampshire, Northamptonshire, or Wiltshire. The first and second are named from the Old English personal name Hana + -ing- denoting association with + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, while the one in Wiltshire is from Old English hanena, genitive plural of hana ‘cock’, ‘male bird’ or the Old English personal name Hana + dūn ‘hill’.