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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : from a pet form of the personal name Egenolf or Egilolf (see Egloff).
  • Possibly also Norwegian, a habitational name from a farm named Eik(e)li, from eik ‘oak’ + li ‘hillside’, ‘slope’.

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