Washington (the town inTyne and Wear, northeastEngland): probably from theOld English place nameHwæssingatūn(literally“a settlement of the household of*Hwæssa”), from*Hwæssa(a Saxon chieftain's name) +-ing(“belonging to”) +tūn(“homestead, settlement”). It was attested in 1096 asWasindone.Hwæssa is of uncertain origin, said to possibly correspond towaþ(“hunt”) +sige(“victory”),[1] or possibly related tohwæte(“wheat”). There are other theories; more onWikipedia.
The surname derives from the town, and most places in the United States are named forGeorge Washington.
2021 November 18, Clare Duffy, “Why Amazon is opening an in-person cloud skills center to train workers for other companies”, inCNN Business[1]:
The Skills Center, which is located on Amazon’s corporate headquarters campus in Seattle,Washington, and opens to the public November 22, is the first of its kind for the company. It’s part of a larger commitment to train 29 million people globally in cloud computing by 2025 that AWS made last year.
2023 March 7, Ben Blanchard, Yimou Lee, “China 'seriously concerned' by Taiwan president 'transit' plans amid reported US trip”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, Robert Birsel, editors,Reuters[2], archived fromthe original on8 March 2023, Asia Pacific[3]:
Taiwanese presidents, including Tsai, have a record of travelling through the U.S. en route to other countries, usually for a day or two, though the U.S. government has generally avoided meeting senior Taiwanese officials inWashington.
(Washington, D.C.):DC /D.C. /District of Columbia(The federal district and city are coterminous and the city government administers the district, so are jurisdictionally equivalent)
According to the 2010 United States Census,Washington is the 145th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 177,386 individuals.Washington is most common among Black (87.5%) individuals.
Linus is afraid of money. Not the smaller bills, theWashingtons and Lincolns, the Jacksons and Grants, but the larger sums, the cashier’s checks with multiple zeros, the stock portfolios and escrow accounts, afraid too of what they buy, the new cars with their leather stink, the first-class seats on airplanes, the cellular phones and fax modems.
2001, Jennifer Edwards,Money, Westminster, Calif.: Teacher Created Materials, Inc.,→ISBN, page62:
9 Jacksons = / 3 Grants = / 2Washingtons =
2010, Kehinde Garrison,American Delinquents, Anderson, S.C.: Stone Soup Press™,→ISBN, page79:
Joseph had missed the feeling of carrying a phat bankroll, one not padded withWashingtons and topped with Grants.
2018, Antonio C. Nelson,Woman Pleaser, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, Inc,→ISBN:
I would go over to his house wide eyed, ears open, and seeking any form of obtaining money to strengthen up my outfits. I would help him count money that would spread across the entire living room. This temptation of stealing some of those Franklins, Grants, Jacksons, Hamiltons, Lincolns, Jeffersons, andWashingtons was too strong for me to resist at twelve years old.
2022, Douglas J. McGregor,Roadtrip 41, Bloomington, Ind.:iUniverse,→ISBN:
Not counting the loose change jiggling in my pocket, (and it sounded like a lot of pennies to me), I only had oneBen Franklin, twoUlysses S. Grants, a crinklyAndrew Jackson that someone had drawn an ink moustache on, twoLincolns and twoWashingtons.
“Washington”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
Washington, Tyne and Wear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia