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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place named Willingham, notably one in Cambridgeshire and one in Suffolk. The first is recorded in Domesday Book as Wivelingham ‘homestead (Old English hām) of the people of a man called Wifel’.

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