Yelling Family History
Yelling Name Meaning
most often a variant of Yelland .occasionally from Yelling (Hunts) which is recorded as Gelinge in 1086 Gillinges in 1220 and Yillyng in 134 The place-name means ‘(the place of) the people of a man called Giella’ from an Old English personal name *Giella + the Old English group-name suffix -ingas.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016