Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of several places called Dorrington. One in Lincolnshire and one in Shropshire (near Woore) get the name from Old English Dēoringtūn ‘settlement (tūn) associated with Dēor(a)’ (see Dear); another in Shropshire (near Condover) was earlier Dodintone ‘settlement associated with Dodda’.