American Family Name Origins:
Edgington
Frequency: (1086)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (West Midlands): probably a habitational name, of uncertain origin. It may be from a lost place, so named as the ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Ecgi’, a short form of the various compound names with the first element ecg ‘edge’, ‘point’ (of a weapon). Alternatively, it may be a variant of Erdington (see Edrington).
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
