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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named Wheeldon, from Old English hwēol ‘wheel’ (referring perhaps to a rounded shape) + dūn ‘hill’, or from Whielden in Buckinghamshire, which is named with hwēol + denu ‘valley’.

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