Hoisington Family History
Hoisington Name Meaning
Perhaps an altered form of Horsington an English habitational name from places so named in Somerset and Lincolnshire. The first is named from Old English hors-thegn ‘horsekeeper groom’ + tūn ‘farmstead’ while the second is named in Domesday Book as Horsintone ‘farmstead (Old English tūn) associated with (-ing-) a man called Horsa’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022