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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Skilled

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish : variant of Dahl.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name, perhaps related to Anglo-Saxon deal ‘proud’, ‘famous’; or alternatively from a Slavic stem dalu ‘gift’, a nickname for a generous or gifted person perhaps.

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