Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from places so named in Hampshire, Northumbria, and Norfolk. The first of these is named from Old English Ēdlingahām ‘homestead (Old English hām) of the people of Ēdla’, a personal name derived from a short form of the various compound names with a first element ēad ‘prosperity’, ‘fortune’; the others may have the same origin or incorporate the personal name Ella (see Ellington).