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Surname Etymology and Meaning of HINCHCLIFFE

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English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from an unattested Old English element henge ‘steep’ + Old English clif ‘cliff’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)