Lavington
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English
Etymology
Habitational surname from the villages of Market Lavington and West Lavington, from the Old English personal name Lāfa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Lavington (countable and uncountable, plural Lavingtons)
- (countable) A surname from Old English.
- (uncountable) A placename, from the surname:
- A suburb of Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated community in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada.
- A suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.
Related terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Lavington is the 139228th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 120 individuals. Lavington is most common among White (47.5%) individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lavington”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 406.