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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived by or owned a piece of land by the Ihle River, a tributary of the Elbe northeast of Magdeburg.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Ile, from Old Norse íla ‘well’, ‘spring’.

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