Pennington

English surname

"penny town"

Pennington Origin and Meaning

The name Pennington is a girl's name meaning "penny town".

An unconventional route to the nickname Penny. Pennington debuted on the charts for girls in 2015.

Pennington is more familiar as a surname. It is habitational, denoting ancestors from English towns named Pennington (most often Pennington, Cumbria). Penington is an alternate spelling of the surname, but has never been recorded as a given name.