Westmoreland Family History
Westmoreland Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): habitational name from the former region or county of Westmorland. The placename is recorded as Westmoringa land c. 1150 and means ‘the land of the people living west of the moors’ (i.e. the Pennines) from Old English west ‘west western’ + mōr ‘moor’ + the groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + land ‘land’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022