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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly from an unattested Old English personal name, e.g. Wihtling or Hwītling.
  • English : alternatively, a habitational name from Whitlinge, in Worcestershire, named from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + hlinc ‘ridge’.

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