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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so called in the Eifel Mountains.
  • The earliest known immigrant of this name is Rudolph Duckwell or Duckwiler, who arrived at Philadelphia from Rotterdam on the ship Virtuous Grace on 24 September 1737. The name is widespread in Germany, and several bearers of it brought it to North America independently of one another.

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