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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Healing in northeastern Lincolnshire, named in Old English as ‘(settlement of) the family or followers of Hægel’ (an unattested Old English personal name).
  • English : variant of Hillian.
  • German and Dutch : nickname from Middle Low German hellin, Middle Dutch hellinc, hallinc ‘halfpenny’. Compare Helbling.
  • German : habitational name from any of various places named Helling or Hellingen.

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