Family name origins & meanings
- Perhaps an altered form of Horsington, an English habitational name, from places so named in Somerset and Lincolnshire. The first is named from Old English hors-þegn ‘horsekeeper’, ‘groom’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, while the second is named in Domesday Book as Horsintone ‘farmstead (Old English tūn) associated with (-ing-) a man called Horsa’.