# Barrington

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #31,075

## Definitions
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13. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
* As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from Medieval Latin Barentinum, Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of Celtic/Gaulish origin and identical with Barenton, both names from a Gaulish word related to water.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), see Barnes, Barron.

## Easily confused with
- **Burlington** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrington-vs-burlington)

## Common misspellings (14)
`abrrington`, `barington`, `barirngton`, `barrignton`, `barringgton`, `barringotn`, `barringtno`, `barringtonn`, `barringtton`, `barrinngton`, `barrintgon`, `barrnigton`, `bbarrington`, `brarington`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/barrington