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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : metronymic from a female personal name, a form of the Germanic personal name Adelheid (see Leite). From this were derived Frenchified names such as Adelis, Alisa, Alis, and Alice, hence the surname.
  • Dutch and North German : metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Elisabeth.

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