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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire, recorded as Bidolf in Domesday Book, from Old English ‘beside’ + dylf ‘digging’ (a putative derivative of delfan ‘to dig’), i.e. a mine or quarry.

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