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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish (Dahlén) : ornamental form of Dahl, with the suffix -én, from the Latin adjectival suffix -enius ‘relating to’.
  • Norwegian : variant spelling of the farm name Dalen.
  • German : habitational name from any of various places in Germany named Dahlum, e.g. near Düsseldorf and in Eastphalia.

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