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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Anton(ius) (see Anthony) or a Sorbian short form of Daniel.
  • German : Westphalian nickname for an idler, from Low German dengel ‘sluggish’.

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