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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Bingley in West Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Bingelei, from the Old English personal name Bynna (or alternatively Old English bing ‘hollow’) + -inga ‘of the people of’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

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