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Billington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of three places called
Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first
of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped
hill’ (see Bill); the second is in Domesday Book as
Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tun) of
Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as
Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa +
dun ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely
source of the surname.
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Name Distribution of Billington Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Billington families
 46 - 90  16 - 45 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Billington families
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834 - 1,666 279 - 833 |
1 - 278 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Billington families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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