Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of the places called Burrington, for example in Avon, Devon, and Herefordshire. The first and last are named with Old English burh ‘fortified place’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘enclosure’; the second is recorded in Domesday Book as Bernintone ‘estate associated with a man called Beorn’.
- George Burrington (c.1680–1759), born in Devon, England, was a colonial governor of NC (1723–25, 1731–34).