origin
English: habitational name from any of various places named Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic element crug ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’.
other versions of this surname
links
- https://stirnet.com/genie/data/british/cc4aq/churchill1.php (membership required in order to view without interruption)
- https://stirnet.com/genie/data/british/cc4aq/churchill2.php (membership required in order to view without interruption)