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Origin Of The Surname Hull
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Meaning Of The Surname Hull
Lived on a Hill / From the town with the Hill
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Interesting
Facts About
Hull
Hull is a surname with amgious use, as it could be both topographical and locational. This happens where a place name is itself topographical. Hull comes from the Old English ‘hulle’ meaning hill and as such could have been given as a topographical name for a person living on or near a hill. Alternatively it could have been given as a locational surname for a person from Hull. There are various topographically named towns so-called across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. |
Hull Statistics
Hull is the number 873 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 11,290 share the surname Hull in the UK.
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