The billing Surname
billing Name Meaning and History
- English: either from a Middle English survival of an Old English personal name, Billing, or a habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire called Billing, probably ‘(settlement of) the followers (Old English -ingas) of a man called Bill(a)’.
- German: from a Germanic personal name, formed with a cognate of Old Saxon bil ‘sword’.
- Danish and Norwegian: from an Old Danish personal name, Billing.
- Swedish: shortened form of various habitational names such as Billinge, Billingsfors, etc.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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