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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from an old personal name, Damo, a short form of a compound name formed with Old High German tac ‘day’.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of German Demmler, a southern nickname for a glutton, from an agent derivative of Middle High German demmen ‘to indulge oneself’, or a northern nickname from Middle Low German damelaer, demeler ‘prankster’, ‘flirt’.

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