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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Kent) : origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of the habitational name Wimbley, or a variant of Wimple, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of wimples, from Middle English wimple (Old English wimpel ‘veil’).

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