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Dautel

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

French : variant of Desautels.
French : topographic name, with the preposition d(e), for someone who lived by a small church, from autel ‘altar’ (Latin altare).
German : nickname from Swabian dautel ‘indecisive or clumsy man’.
Dutch and North German : from a pet form of Daut.