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Updated March 13, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : from a compound of Elling (either a personal name from Old Norse Erlingr, probably meaning ‘son of an earl’, or a Danish patronymic from the Frisian personal name Elle) + boe ‘dwelling’, ‘abode’.

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