Entry № 1788 · English origin

Carrington Carrington — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAR-ing-tuhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Carr's town (Leonora Carrington's surname)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "carr's town (leonora carrington's surname)".

Carrington is from the Old English place name (Carr's town) — historically a male surname. Forster, and Lytton Strachey; her unconventional life and tragic suicide were the subject of Carrington (1995) starring Emma Thompson — Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.

Carr's town (Leonora Carrington's surname) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Carrington
Transliteration
Carrington
Pronunciation
/ ˈkær.ɪŋ.tən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Carrington stands.

Carrington does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Carringtons before her.

Real people
Leonora Carrington
British-Mexican surrealist painter.
1917 – 2011
Dora Carrington
English Bloomsbury Group painter.
1893 – 1932
Lord Carrington
British Foreign Secretary + NATO Secretary General.
1919 – 2018
In fiction
Carrington
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Carrington.

The number behind Carrington.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Carrington reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.