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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements hall (see Hall) + the suffix -in, derived from Latin -in(i)us ‘descendant of’.
  • Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAilín ‘descendant of Ailín’, a personal name of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive from ail ‘noble’, ‘rock’.

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