Barrington

English Etymology As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the en ang - personal name ang Beorn + ang -ing belonging to + ang tūn enclosure; settlement, town. There is also the placename in Somerset of en nrf - origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from en la-med Barentinum, la Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of en cel -/en cel-gau - origin and identical with Barenton, both names from a Gaulish word related to water.René Lepelley, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie, Condé-sur-Noireau, Éditions Charles Corlet, 1996, p. 58. As an en ga - surname, from ga Ó Bearáin descendant of Bearán, see en Barnes, en Barron. Proper noun ~ s en uncountable A placename: en village/and/cpar in dist/South Cambridgeshire co/Cambridgeshire cc/England OS grid ref TL3949. Parish map (Cambridgeshire) en cpar in dist/Cotswold co/Gloucestershire cc/England, which includes the villages of en Great and en Little Barrington. Parish map (Gloucestershire) en village/and/cpar in co/Somerset cc/England previously in dist/South Somerset OS grid ref ST3818. Parish map (Somerset) en small village on the riv/Barrington River s/New South Wales c/Australia. en locality carea/Kentish s/Tasmania c/Australia. en rural community in co/Shelburne County p/Nova Scotia c/Canada. en hamlet in the township of twpmun/Hemmingford p/Quebec c/Canada. en number of places c/USA: en suburban village co/Cook County and co/Lake County s/Illinois. en town co/Strafford County s/New Hampshire. TopoZone: Barrington, New Hampshire en borough in co/Camden County s/New Jersey. TopoZone: Barrington, New Jersey en town co/Yates County s/New York. en suburban residential town co/Bristol County s/Rhode Island. TopoZone: Barrington, Rhode Island en countable en habitational Old English. Derived terms en Barrington Tops Lower Barrington barringtonite Great Barrington Little Barrington Statistics 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 Further reading