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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic from the Old English personal name Wella.
  • topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or stream, from a derivative of Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
  • German : habitational name from any of various places in the Rhineland called Welling or Wellingen.

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