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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Allen.
  • German : habitational name from either of two places called Alling, one in Bavaria and one in Austria.
  • Danish : habitational name from any of several places called Alling. The etymology of the place name is uncertain; it may be a derivative of al ‘alder’.
  • Roger Alling signed the New Haven, CT, Compact in 1639.

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