Last name: WELLINGTON
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WELLINGTON : This last name is indexed 71,146 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WELLINGTON : English: habitational name from any of the three places called Wellington in Herefordshire Shropshire and Somerset or from Wellington Heath (Herefordshire). All are most probably named with an unattested Old English personal name Wēola + -ing- (implying association with) + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
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