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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon) : variant of Hillian. The surname is associated chiefly with Devon, where the family held land at Upton Hellions from the 13th century onward.
  • North German and Dutch : patronymic from a short form of any of various Germanic personal names composed with hild ‘strife’ (see Hild, Hildebrand).

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