Gedling Family History
Gedling Name Meaning
from Gedling (Notts) which is recorded as Ghellinge in 1086 Gedlinges in 1187 and Geddeling' in 123 The place-name means ‘(place of) the people of a man called Gēdel’ from an Old English personal name *Gēdel + the group-name suffix -ingas. Some of the post-medieval bearers cited here may belong under (2). sometimes perhaps a variant of Gatling .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016