Given name & surname
Arrington
“eagle”·“belonging to”·“enclosure; settlement, town”
Arrington is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Arrington is built from elements meaning “eagle” and “belonging to” and “enclosure; settlement, town”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arrington through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 749
- 510 boys · 239 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #8,322 for boys · #13,374 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,322 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 2005. It also appeared in 6 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 670 as a first name in 2020; 21,150 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arrington’s family of names
In English usage, Arrington as a surname has a related form in ARINGTON.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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