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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Watlington in Norfolk or Oxfordshire, or Whatlington in Sussex. All are from an unattested Old (variously Hwætel, Wacol, Wæcel) + -inga suffix indicating association + tūn ‘settlement’.

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