Widdrington

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Widdrington (countable and uncountable, plural Widdringtons)

1. A village in Widdrington Village parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2595).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Widdrington Station
• Widdrington Village

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Widdringtonia

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Widdrington is the 21453^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 204 individuals.

Further reading

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