Barrington
English
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Etymology
[edit]- As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from Medieval Latin Barentinum, Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of Celtic/Gaulish origin and identical with Barenton, both names from a Gaulish word related to water.[1]
- As an Irish surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), see Barnes, Barron.
Proper noun
[edit]Barrington (countable and uncountable, plural Barringtons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949). [2]
- A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the villages of Great and Little Barrington. [3]
- A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3818). [4]
- A small village on the Barrington River, New South Wales, Australia.
- A locality in Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia.
- A rural community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A hamlet in the township of Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A suburban village in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois.
- A town in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
- A borough in Camden County, New Jersey.
- A town in Yates County, New York.
- A suburban residential town in Bristol County, Rhode Island.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Barrington is the 6928th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4843 individuals. Barrington is most common among White (79.85%) and Black/African American (14.14%) individuals.
References
[edit]- ^ René Lepelley, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie, Condé-sur-Noireau, Éditions Charles Corlet, 1996, p. 58.
- ^ Parish map (Cambridgeshire)
- ^ Parish map (Gloucestershire)
- ^ Parish map (Somerset)
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barrington”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 106.
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- English terms derived from Celtic languages
- English terms derived from Gaulish
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- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
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