Teeling Name Meaning and History

1.      English and Irish: unexplained; most probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place somewhere in South Wales or southern England. This name was established in County Meath, Ireland, soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century.

2.      Dutch: unexplained.  *)

3.      Probably a respelling of German Tiling, a patronymic form of Thiel

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*) In the Dutch revieuws it has been mentioned that the name would refer to Taling, which is a duck. This would also explain the 3 ducks in the official armour of the Teelinck family in Zeeland: