The Glendinning Family Name

There is no single Glendinning family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Family name meaning

Search old registers for Glendinning and you will soon meet Glendenning too. Read literally, Glendinning points to “Someone who came from Glendinning (glen of the fair hill)”.

Glendinning writes “i” in place of the “e” found in Glendenning, a typical scribal difference. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. About 463 people in the United States were recorded as Glendinning in 2010, placing it 46,037 on the national list. It sits among the 50,000 most common last names in the country.

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