Släkthistoria för Wiblin
Wiblin Vad efternamn betyder
from the Middle English personal name *Wibelin probably from Norman Old French *Wibelin a double diminutive form of Continental Germanic *Wibbo a pet form of Wigbald or Wigbert. Compare the surname Wyberd 1327 and 1332 in Subsidy Rolls (Sussex) and the French surname Guibelin which derives from a Central or Parisian French variant of Wibelin. Alternatively it might be a double diminutive form of Middle English Wibbe Old English *Wibba perhaps a pet form of Old English Wīgbeald Wīgbeorht or the rarer Wīgbeorn. Compare Willelmus filius Wibbe 1231 in Patent Rolls (Northumb) Ricardus Wibbe 1379 in Poll Tax (Ecclesfield WR Yorks). Personal names of Old English origin rarely attract Old French hypocoristic suffixes but compare Pimlott. The Continental Germanic and the Old English names are composed of the elements Wīg- ‘war’ + b(e)ald‘ brave’ be(o)rht ‘bright fair’ or beorn ‘hero’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
