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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Herrington in County Durham, possibly so named from an unattested Old English personal name H̄ra(from Old Enlish h̄ra ‘servant’) + -ing- denoting association + denu ‘woodland’, ‘pasture’.
  • English : Possibly a variant of Harrington or a hypercorrected form of Errington.

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