Billing Family History
Billing Name Meaning
English: either a patronymic from the Middle English personal name Billing derived from Old English bil ‘sword’ or a habitational name from Great and Little Billing in Northamptonshire meaning ‘(settlement of) the followers (Old English -ingas) of a man called Bill(a) or Bȳdel’. German: from an ancient Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of Old Saxon bīl ‘sword’. Danish and Norwegian: from an Old Danish personal name of uncertain origin. Swedish: habitational name from a shortened form of the placenames such as Billinge and Billingsfors.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022