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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name, from Old French du til ‘from the lime(tree)’ (from Latin tilia), or a habitational name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from’, for someone from a place named with this word, in particular Le Thil in Pas-de-Calais or Thil in Meurthe-et-Moselle.

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