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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly East Anglia) : from the Middle English personal name Wol(f)stan, Old English Wulfstān, composed of the elements wulf ‘wolf’ + stān stone.
  • English (chiefly East Anglia) : habitational name from any of a large number of places called Woolston(e) or Wollston, all of which are named with Old English personal names containing the first element Wulf (Wulfhēah, Wulfhelm, Wulfrīc, Wulfsige, and Wulfweard) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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