Willington
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from Willington (Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire); first attested John de Wilentona 13th c
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Willington is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ecuador.
- Ecuador (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Willington (Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire); first attested John de Wilentona 13th c.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Willington counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | — | 1.4K | — | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 432 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 271 | — | 44 |
| US United States | — | 146 | — | 46 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 136 | — | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Willington is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A number of places in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ernest Willington Skeatsb. 1875GBAustralian geologist
- Augustus Agarb. 1890GBnot in their usual namerecipient of the Victoria Cross (1890-1968)
- Daniel Willingtonb. 1942ARArgentine footballer-manager
- Willington Ortizb. 1952COColombian footballer
- Willington Techerab. 1985UYUruguayan footballer
- Willington Ávilab. 1985PEPeruvian association football player
- Willington Previlonb. 1997football player (born 1997)
- Sir Frank Willington CarterBritish philanthropist
- Willington Baena OrtizCOperson killed in Colombia in the context of the so-called 'false positives'
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 432 | #12,720 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 126 | #125,639 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Willington mean, and where does it come from?
- from Willington (Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire); first attested John de Wilentona 13th c. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Willington have the most bearers?
- Willington is most frequently recorded in Ecuador.
What do you want to know about Willington?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/willingtonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Willington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.