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Darlington


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Origin Of The Surname Darlington

Meaning Of The Surname Darlington

From Deornoth’s Town

Interesting Facts About Darlington

Darlington is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English forename ‘Deornoth’ combined with ‘tun’ to mean ‘Deornoth’s Town’. Darlington would have originally been a small settlement led by a man named Deornoth.

Darlington Statistics

Darlington is the number 1233 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 8,131 share the surname Darlington in the UK.

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