Watlington

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Wadlington

Etymology

From an unattested Old English personal name + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Watlington (countable and uncountable, plural Watlingtons)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6110).
   2. A market town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6894).
   3. A suburb of Timaru, New Zealand.
2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Watlington is the 15985^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1816 individuals. Watlington is most common among Black/African American (48.68%) and White (45.87%) individuals.

Further reading

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