"Traditional English name"
The name Ellington is commonly a unisex name from the "English" origin.
Ellington is an English surname and place name, recorded as a place name in several English counties. It comes from the Old English personal name Ella, or Aella, combined with Old English tun, meaning enclosure, farmstead or settlement, so the place name denotes a farmstead associated with a man of that name. Its use as a given name belongs to the English practice of taking surnames as first names, and the spelling is unchanged from the surname.
The pronunciation of Ellington is EL-ing-tun.
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