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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : patronymic from Elling, from the Old Norse personal name Erlingr, meaning ‘son of an earl’.
  • North German : habitational name for someone from a place called Ellinghausen, Ellingesen, or similar.

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