Is Helline a german surname?

Question

Is Helline a german surname?

Answer 1

It is likely a variant spelling of Helin, but unless you trace your lineage back, you cannot be certain about it if it is your own name.

Helin  

Last name origins & meanings:

Swedish (also frequent in Finland): ornamental name from an unexplained first element + the suffix -lin or -in, common suffixes of surnames.

French (Hélin): from a pet form of Hélie (see Helie 1).

French (Hélin): from the Germanic personal name Heilin, a short form of any of various compound names with the first element heil (see Heilmann 2).

English: variant of Hillian.

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Surname: Hellin

This unusual surname derives from the female personal name "Ellen", which was the usual medieval English vernacular form of the given name "Helen", from the Greek "Helene", thought to be a derivative of "Helane", torch, and often translated as "the bright one". The given name was popular in medieval England, partly because Helena was the name of the mother of Constantine the Great, the Holy Roman Emperor credited with finding the True Cross; according to legend, St. Helena was the daughter of a British King. The surname development includes Walter Eleyn (1279, Oxfordshire), Ralph Elene (1314, Essex), Robert Elyn (1327, Suffolk), and William Helyns (1332, Worcestershire). The modern surname has a variety of forms, ranging from Ellen, Elen, Ellin, Elin, Elleyne, Hellen, Helen and Hellin, to the metronymics Ellens, Ellings, Ellins and Hellens. The marriage of William Elen and Dorothy Morris was recorded at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, in London, on April 16th 1611. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Helene, which was dated 1275, in the "Subsidy Rolls of Worcestershire", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Answer 2

An early immigrant in the 1880 census is from Baden, Germany.