Arrington
Masculine · “Old English”
Arrington is given to both — 510 boys and 239 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
The syllable -ing- in an English place name means the people of. Arrington is the settlement of Earna's people, and the same structure gives Birmingham, Nottingham, Reading, Hastings and Washington. It is a specific and datable Anglo-Saxon formation, and where it appears on a map it marks where a named group settled.
How old is the name Arrington?
Arrington first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Arrington alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 500 people named Arrington are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Arrington most popular?
Arrington peaked in 1971, reaching #3370 nationally. Today it ranks #8243, 4,873 places below that high. See the whole 1971 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Earningatun to Arrington
The story of Arrington
Place name elements are datable, and the -ingaton pattern belongs to a particular phase of English settlement. The earliest layer uses -ingas alone, the people of somebody, which gives Hastings and Reading and appears to record the original bands. Slightly later comes -ingaham, the homestead of the people of, and -ingatun, their farm, which give the Birmingham and Washington shapes. By the tenth century the pattern had stopped being productive, so a place name of this form is evidence of early settlement rather than of anything later. Historians have used the distribution of these names to map the phases of Anglo-Saxon expansion, though the method has been argued about for a century. What survives in the modern name is a piece of that structure: a person, a group, and a farm, in that order.
Meaning
Old English, the settlement of Earna's people
From an Old English personal name, probably Earna or Earn, with the group suffix -inga-, meaning the people or followers of, and tun, an enclosed settlement. Arrington is a village in Cambridgeshire. The compound structure, personal name plus -inga- plus -tun, is one of the standard English place name patterns and is generally dated to the seventh and eighth centuries. Arrington peaks as an American given name in 1971.
How the name formed
- Earningatun
- Arrington
Pronouncing Arrington
AR-ing-tun
Three syllables, stress on the first, short a. The middle syllable is the -ing- of the place name formation and is fully pronounced; the last is reduced, as it is in every English -ton name.
Nicknames for Arrington
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 200519 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3370reached in 1971
- Change vs 2023
- +50.0%9 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Arringtons among us
people named Arrington are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 189,786 born in 2025 was named Arrington
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Johm test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Arrington's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Johm climbed just as high around 1947, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Johm's path sketches the road Arrington is walking now.
Arrington sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Arrington beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Arrington in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The structure is fully documented and datable.
- It fits the -ton pattern that dominates American boys' naming.
- Ari is a current and usable short form.
- Three syllables and nine letters is long for a first name.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
- Arlington is a near-homophone and much better known.
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Masculine · #8243 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Arringtons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Arrington are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Arrington in 2025?
- Arrington ranks #8243 among US boy names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Arrington?
- About 1 in every 189,786 US boys born in 2025 was named Arrington — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Arrington with classmates?
- Arrington will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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