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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Hipswell in North Yorkshire, named in Old English possibly as ‘stream with stepping stones’; the first element may be from an unattested noun derivative hyppels of the verb hoppian ‘to hop’, and the second is wella, wiella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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