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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Chevington in Suffolk or from East or West Chevington in Northumberland. The first is named with an Old English personal name Cifa (genitive Cifan) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’; the second is from the same personal name + -ing-, denoting association, + tūn.

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