Last name: BILLINGTON

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BILLINGTON : This last name is indexed 45,125 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BILLINGTON : English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington in Lancashire Staffordshire and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.

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