“All Hingertys are related”, or so my father, John William Hingerty (1923-2008) always claimed.

The Hingerty One Name Study is an attempt to explore this claim through

• researching the history and origins of the name;
• locating all recorded incidences of the name in Ireland and immigrant countries (England, Australia, USA);
• reconstructing family trees;
• exploring migration, frequency and distribution patterns related to name bearers;
• a YDNA Project on FTDNA

The study will be supported by:

• the Hingerty One Name Study Website hosted by the Guild of One Name Studies. It contains a tree of Hingerty name bearers. 

The tree will be a work in progress, documenting the Hingerty surname (and the variants Hingerton and Ingerton) in the immigrant countries of Australia, England, the USA and the 'home' country Ireland.  Photos and historical documents will be added to individuals in the future.

Please make contact if you have any questions or comments about the information on the site, or just want to say Hi.  https://hingerty.one-name.net

• the Hingerty Blog http://hingerty.blogspot.com
• The Hingerty YDNA Project has been set up on FTDNA to assist with identifying the various family lines. https://familytreedna.com/my/group-join?group=hingerty&

Please contact if you are interested in joining this YDNA project.

There are many deviant spellings for the Hingerty surname as well as a few variants which came into use as the surname developed across the years.

The variants Hingerton and Ingerton will be researched to determine if they are deviant spellings, variants or totally unconnected with the surname Hingerty.

The variant Harrington will be included when it acts as a deviant and therefore directly relates to Hingerty.

According to Edward MacLysaght (The Surnames of Ireland 1989)

(O) Hingerty…is one of the anglicised forms of ohlongardail which has for the most part become Harrington.

He adds further information in a subsequent publication (Supplement to Irish Families 1957,1964) giving us the first reference to the surname when he states that

…Hingerty derives from one of the early Gaelic surnames which for the most part became in due course Harrington. Fairly conclusive evidence of this is afforded by Elizabethan Fiant 3082 in which John MacTeige O’Hengerltye of Dunbeacon, Co Cork, is described as alias Harrington: that was in 1577.

There are references to Hingerty in the Hearth Rolls of 1664 for the County of Tipperary. References to the surname stay mainly focussed on Tipperary until the 1800s when emigration begins.

Hingerty is now and always has been a low frequency surname both in its country of origin, Ireland and the immigrant countries of Australia, England and the USA.

The Hingerty YDNA Project has been set up on FTDNA to assist with identifying the various family lines. https://familytreedna.com/my/group-join?group=hingerty&

Please contact if you are interested in joining this YDNA project.

Autosomal DNA match lists are also scanned regularly to identify any Hingerty related matches.

Please make contact if you find a DNA connection!