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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Dillingen near Augsburg or Tüllingen in Baden.
  • English : habitational name from Drellingore in Kent, which is recorded as Dillynger in 1264, from the Old English personal name Dylla + -ing- denoting association + Old English ōra ‘hill slope’.

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