Ellington Family History
Ellington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Ellington (Hampshire Kent North Yorkshire and Northumberland) named either from Old English æl ēl ‘eel’ or from the Old English personal name Ella or Eli (a short form of various compound names with the first element ælf ‘elf’) + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead’. However Ellington in Kent has its first element from the Old English byname Ealda ‘old’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022