The welling Surname
welling Name Meaning and History
- English: patronymic from the Old English personal name Wella.
- topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or stream, from a derivative of Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
- German: habitational name from any of various places in the Rhineland called Welling or Wellingen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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