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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone living in a small wooded dell or hollow, Middle English dingle (of uncertain origin). There is a district of Liverpool called Dingle.
  • South German : nickname or status name for a smallholder, from Middle High German dingelīn ‘smallholding’.
  • Americanized spelling of the old Prussian name Dingel or Dyngele, possibly from Germanic thing ‘legal assembly’.

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