Family name origins & meanings
- English (Lancashire and Cumbria) : probably a habitational name from Swinglehurst in Bowland Forest, West Yorkshire, so named from Old English swīn ‘hog’, ‘wild boar’ + hyll ‘hill’ + hyrst ‘wooded ridge’.
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