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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Croatian (southern Dalmatia) : unexplained. Possibly from delo ‘work’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of the French surname De l’Eau, a topographic name, with fused preposition and article, for someone who lived by a stretch of water, from Old French ewe ‘water’.

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