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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : of uncertain derivation; it may be from Dylling ‘son of Dylla’, or from dylling ‘the dull one’.
  • German : metronymic from the female personal name Dilli, in Westphalia a pet form of Ottilie.
  • German : variant of Dillinger.

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