Barrington

Etymology

 * As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the personal name  +  + . There is also the placename in Somerset of  origin, probably named after  in Seine-Maritime, from, , of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of / origin and  identical with , both names from a Gaulish word related to water.
 * As an surname, from , see ,.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A placename:
 * , which includes the villages of and.
 * , which includes the villages of and.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Barrington is the 6928th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4843 individuals. Barrington is most common among White (79.85%) and Black/African American (14.14%) individuals.