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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Gloucestershire) : from a pet form of the personal name Hugh.
  • French : from a pet form of Hue (see Hugh).
  • French : from a reduced form of Hudelin, a double diminutive of the personal name Hude (see Houde).
  • Possibly Swedish : from an unidentified first element + the common ornamental suffix -(l)in.
  • A Hulin from the Brie region of France is recorded in Quebec City in 1659.

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