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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Düll) : nickname for a stubborn man (‘thick head’), probably from a south German dialect word tull ‘stout’, ‘corpulent’.
  • German : variant of Thiel.
  • Scottish : habitational name from Dull in Perthshire.

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