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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from an unidentified place. It may be a metathesized spelling of Erdington in the West Midlands, which derives its name from the Old English personal name Ēanrēd + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  • Christopher Edrington is recorded in Rappahannock co., VA, in 1666–71.

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