SHERRINGTON
Sherrington is a surname of English, more precisely Anglo‑Saxon, origin. It is a locational name that was adopted by people who came from or lived in the settlement called Sherrington in Wiltshire, or by others who were associated with the village of Sherington in Buckinghamshire. The name is therefore intrinsically tied to a place.
The place name itself is composed of the Old English elements scir, meaning “bright” or “clear”, and tun, meaning “enclosure” or “settlement.” Consequently the surname Sherrington can be understood as denoting a “bright settlement” or a “settlement of Scir” and was originally a topographic description of the village or its surroundings.
Historical documentation records the name in several forms. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the settlement as “Serintone” and the 1172 Pipe Rolls refer to it as “Schirincton.” The earliest known spelling of the family name in the surviving registers is that of William Sheryngton, whose marriage to Grace Pagett was recorded on 10 July 1542 at St. Dionis Backchurch, London, during the reign of King Henry VIII. Subsequent London church registers provide further evidence of the surname’s usage: William Sherrington married Elizabeth Mayor on 3 December 1561 at St. Antholin, Budge Row; Ellen, daughter of Bryan Sherrington, was christened on 28 July 1563 at St. Margaret’s, Westminster; and Johanna Sherrington was christened on 4 September 1569 at All Hallows the Less.
A heraldic honour associated with the family is a red shield bearing two flaunches chequy of silver and blue, with two gold crosses formee in pale, each charged with a black cross formee. The crest is described as a gold scorpion in pale, tail in chief between two elephants’ teeth; the upper part is chequy of silver and blue and the lower part is red, each charged with a cross in the manner of the arms.
The surname also occurs in variants such as Sherington and Shrimpton. During the Middle Ages, increased migration for employment encouraged individuals to adopt their village’s name as an identifier, which contributed to the dispersal of the name beyond its place of origin.
Typical given names associated with the Sherrington surname
Male
- Andrew
- Christopher
- Craig
- David
- James
- John
- Mark
- Matthew
- Michael
- Paul
- Robert
- William
Female
- Christine
- Elizabeth
- Emma
- Hannah
- Jennifer
- Julie
- Karen
- Lisa
- Mary
- Rebecca
- Sheila
- Susan
Similar and related surnames
- Charington
- Charrington
- Cherington
- Cherrington
- Sarington
- Sarrington
- Schiering
- Sharing
- Sharpington
- Sharrangton
- Sharrington
- Shearing
- Shearring
- Sheavington
- Sheering
- Sheffington
- Shellington
- Shering
- Sherington
- Sherring
- Sherringer
- Shervington
- Sheuring
- Shevington
- Shewring
- Shirrington
- Shirvington
- Shoring
- Shorrington
- Shuring
- Shurvington
- Skerington
- Skerrington
Related and similar names are generated algorithmically based on the spelling, and may not necessarily share an etymology.
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There are approximately 1,578 people named Sherrington in the UK. That makes it roughly the 5,137th most common surname in Britain. Around 24 in a million people in Britain are named Sherrington.
Famous people named Sherrington
- Charles Scott Sherrington - Neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857 to 1952)
- Georgina Sherrington - Actress
- John Sherrington - Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster
- David Sherrington - Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford
- Chris Sherrington - Judoka
- David Sherrington - Cricketer
- Helen Lemmens-Sherrington - Singer (1834 to 1906)
- George Sherrington - Football manager (1890 to 1977)
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