Meaning and Origin of: Churchill

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Lives near the church hill

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic element crūg ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’.