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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Palin

Family name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : Anglicized form of the Welsh patronymic ap Heilyn ‘son of Heilyn’, which is probably a derivative of a word meaning ‘to serve at table’.
  • English : habitational name from Palling in Norfolk or Poling in Sussex. These were named in Old English with the personal names Pælli and Pāl respectively, + -ingas ‘followers of’, ‘dependants of’.
  • French : unexplained.
  • A Palin, also written Palen and Pallin, from the Poitou region of France, is documented in Quebec City in 1692, with the secondary surname Dabonville.

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