Quarrington

English

Etymology

Recorded as Corninctune in the Domesday Book, the name derives from Old English cweorn (“quern”) + -ing + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Quarrington (countable and uncountable, plural Quarringtons)

1. A suburban village in Sleaford parish, North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0544).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Cassop-cum-Quarrington

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Quarrington is the 23420^th most common surname in England, belonging to 179 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Quarrington”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.