Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Healing in northeastern Lincolnshire, named in Old English as ‘(settlement of) the family or followers of Hægel’ (an unattested Old English personal name).
- English : variant of Hillian.
- German and Dutch : nickname from Middle Low German hellin, Middle Dutch hellinc, hallinc ‘halfpenny’. Compare Helbling.
- German : habitational name from any of various places named Helling or Hellingen.