Conington
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (surname): Cunnington
Etymology
editFrom Old English cyning (“king”) + tūn (“enclosure; manor; town”), perhaps under the influence of Old Norse konungs (“king's”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), the source of the placenames Coniston and Coniston Cold. Doublet of Kingstown, Kingston, Kingstone, and Cunnington. Cf. also Kingsville, Kingsburg, Kingsburgh, Coningsby, and Conisbrough.
Proper noun
editConington (countable and uncountable, plural Coningtons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1786). [1]
- A village and civil parish (without a council) in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL3266). [2]
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Conington is the 48451st most common surname in England, belonging to 58 individuals.
References
editFurther reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Conington”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 360.
- Forebears
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Cambridgeshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Cambridgeshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English