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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Frisian : from a reduced form of Dethlefs, a patronymic from an old personal name formed with Old High German diot ‘people’.
  • Dutch : variant of van Delft, a habitational name for someone from Delft.

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