Last name origins & meanings:
- English and German: from a Germanic personal name, either a
short form of compound names such as Billard, or else a byname
Bill(a), from Old English bil ‘sword’, ‘halberd’ (or a
Continental cognate). (Bill as a short form of William
was not used until the 17th century.)
- English: metonymic
occupational name for a maker of pruning hooks and similar implements,
from Middle English bill, from Old English bil ‘sword’,
with the meaning shifted to a more peaceful agricultural application
(see Biller 5).
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