Barrington.
A placename:
Meaning & usage
A placename: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949).
A placename: A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the villages of Great and Little Barrington.
A placename: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3818).
A placename: A small village on the Barrington River, New South Wales, Australia.
A placename: A locality in Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia.
A placename: A rural community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A placename: A hamlet in the township of Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada.
A placename: A number of places in the United States: A suburban village in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois.
A placename: A number of places in the United States: A town in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
A placename: A number of places in the United States: A borough in Camden County, New Jersey.
A placename: A number of places in the United States: A town in Yates County, New York.
A placename: A number of places in the United States: A suburban residential town in Bristol County, Rhode Island.
A habitational surname from Old English.
Where this word comes from
* 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. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), see Barnes, Barron.
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