Barrington

Meanings

1. A placename:
2. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949).
3. A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the villages of Great and Little Barrington.
4. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3818).
5. A small village on the Barrington River, New South Wales, Australia.
6. A locality in Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia.
7. A rural community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
8. A hamlet in the township of Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada.
9. A number of places in the United States:
10. A suburban village in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois.
11. A town in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
12. A borough in Camden County, New Jersey.

Etymology

* 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.