Withington Family History
Withington Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name mainly from Withington in Lancashire and Cheshire though occasionally from any of the other places so named in Gloucestershire Herefordshire Shropshire and Staffordshire or Witherington Farm in Standlynch (Wiltshire). The placenames derive from Old English wīthign ‘willow willow copse’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022