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hipwell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Hipswell in North Yorkshire, named in Old English possibly as ‘stream with stepping stones’; the first element may be from an unattested noun derivative hyppels of the verb hoppian ‘to hop’, and the second is wella, wiella ‘spring’, ‘stream’. The surname has been present in Ireland (County Leix) since the 17th century.

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Distribution of hipwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of hipwell families
 12-21
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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