Family name origins & meanings
- English (Gloucestershire) : from a pet form of the personal name Hugh.
- French : from a pet form of Hue (see Hugh).
- French : from a reduced form of Hudelin, a double diminutive of the personal name Hude (see Houde).
- Possibly Swedish : from an unidentified first element + the common ornamental suffix -(l)in.
- A Hulin from the Brie region of France is recorded in Quebec City in 1659.