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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Childrey in Oxfordshire, which is named for Childrey Brook. This is probably ‘stream (Old English rīth) of Cilla (masculine) or Cille (feminine)’, but the first element could alternatively be Old English cille ‘spring’. The surname has died out in England.

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