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RAWLING Family History

This name is of early medieval English origin, from the Middle English given name "Rawlin", which was adopted from the old French "Raulin", itself a double diminutive with the suffixes "el" and "in") of "Raw", a variant of "Ralph". The latter being first introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers as "Rathulfr", in old Norse, and became "Raedwulf" in Anglo-Saxon. The name means "counsel-wolf", from the originally Germanic elements "rad", counsel, advice, with "wolf", a wolf. Before the Norman Conquest, it had become "Radulf" and the Normans spread the name further in such forms as "Rauf" and "Raffe".