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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of the medieval female personal name Odila, a derivative of od ‘riches’, ‘fortune’. It was the name of an 8th-century saint who founded a Benedictine convent at what is now Odilienburg in Alsace; she is the patron saint of Alsace.

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