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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a sawyer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German dille, dil ‘plank’, ‘(floor)board’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from any of various places named Dill, Dille, or Till.
  • English : occupational name for a grower of dill, from an agent derivative of Old English dile (see Dill 2).

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