Meaning and background
The story behind Reddington
Reddington has separate English and Irish surname accounts. The dictionary proposes an English place-based connection with Rettendon in Essex, whose first element is uncertain, followed by hill vocabulary. Its Irish account involves Anglicized Gaelic surnames in Mayo. These routes should remain alternatives. A dog named Reddington can honour a family or place connection while the English derivation retains its stated uncertainty instead of becoming a definite red-town translation.
- Origin
- English surname probably from Rettendon, with an uncertain first element and hill vocabulary; separately Irish Gaelic surname forms. Source
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About Reddington
Recorded as a dog’s name
Reddington appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/ɹɛdɪŋtən/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/ɹɛdɪŋtən/ · primary stress on syllable 1R EH1 D IH0 NG T AH0 N
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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