Etymology

Pilkington

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

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The story

English habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from an Old English personal name *Pīleca + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.