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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the three places named Wellington, in Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Somerset. All are most probably named with an unattested Old English personal name Wēola + -ing- (implying association with) + tūn ‘settlement’.
  • Roger Wellington came to Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in 1636.

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