Dorrington Family History

English (Middlesex and Essex): habitational name from any of several places with a similar range of medieval forms including Durrington (Sussex), Dorrington in Woore and Derrington in Ditton Priors (both Shropshire), Durrington (Wiltshire), and Dorrington (Lincolnshire).

These placenames all mean ‘farmstead associated with a man called Dēor(a)’ from an Old English personal name Dēora or Dēor + the connective particle -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead settlement’.