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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of Norwegian Devold, a habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway named Devoll, from de (Old Norse digr ‘large’) + v{o,}llr ‘green field’.
  • Possibly also an altered form of French Deval (see Devall 2) or Duval 1.

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