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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (southwest) : occupational name for a roofer (tiler or thatcher), from an agent derivative of Middle English hele(n) ‘to cover’ (Old English helian).
  • French : from the personal name Hillier (see Hillary).

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