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Origin Of The Surname Hetherington
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Meaning Of The Surname Hetherington
From the Heather Town
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Interesting
Facts About
Hetherington
Hetherington 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 can be broken down to ‘heather’ as in the plant, with ‘ing’ added to refer to the people, and ‘tun’ meaning town. Altogether we can take the place name to mean ‘people of the heather town’. |
Hetherington Statistics
Hetherington is the number 1783 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,098 share the surname Hetherington in the UK.
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