Pennington Family

English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):: habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire) which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire) which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn. habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire) or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022