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4/28/2024, 2:57 PM Mike C
4/28/2024, 2:57 PM Mike C
6/10/2016, 4:30 AM LMS

Name Ellingham
Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Edit Status Statusnot set

Meaning & History

Habitational name from places so named in Hampshire, Northumbria, and Norfolk. The first of these is named from Old English Edlingaham ‘homestead (Old English ham) of the people of Edla’, a personal name derived from a short form of the various compound names with a first element ead ‘prosperity’, ‘fortune’; the others may have the same origin or incorporate the personal name Ella 1 (see Ellington).
Added 6/10/2016 by LMS