Barrington
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Barrington in Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, or Somerset; or from Irish Gaelic Ó Beirdin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Barrington is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FIFinland
- USUnited States
- ILIsrael
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Barringtonin(measured from records)
- Irish GaelicÓ(measured from records)
Person from Barrington in Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, or Somerset; or from Irish Gaelic Ó Beirdin.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Barrington is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Barentin (Seine-Maritime) or Barrington (C, Gl, So); first attested Fulk de Barenton 1198 FFEss
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Fulk de Barenton 1198 FFEss; Geoffrey de Barrington’ 1219 P (Do/So); Nicholas de Baryngton 1344 FFEss; John Barrington 1642 PrD. The first example is probably from Barentin (Seine-Maritime), the later ones from Barrington (C, Gl, So).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, This English toponymic occurs occasionally in mediaeval Irish records. The family first settled in Ireland temp. Elizabeth I (Leix); the main family is Cromwellian (Cork). The name is occasionally used as an anglicized form of Ó Bearáin (see Barron). Bibl; IF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Daines Barringtonb. 1728GBBritish lawyer, antiquary and naturalist
- Samuel Barringtonb. 1729British rear-admiral (1729-1800)
- Cecil Hurstb. 1870GBnot in their usual nameBritish judge (1870-1963)
- Barrington Moore, Jr.b. 1913USAmerican historian and sociologist
- Barrington J. Bayleyb. 1937GBBritish writer (1937-2008)
- Barry Cunliffeb. 1939GBnot in their usual nameEnglish archaeologist
- Pat Barringtonb. 1941USAmerican actress (1941–2014)
- Barrington Pheloungb. 1954AUAustralian composer (1954–2019)
- Rikki Beadle-Blairb. 1961GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, singer, designer, choreographer, dancer and songwriter
- Barrington Levyb. 1964JMJamaican reggae and dancehall artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.8K | #6,928 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,705 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,490 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 151 | #474 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 71 | #9,450 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 17 | #206 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #41,869 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #160,980 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #173,467 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barrington mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Barrington in Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, or Somerset; or from Irish Gaelic Ó Beirdin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Barrington have the most bearers?
- Barrington is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Barrington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.