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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : probably a variant of Sandel.
  • English (Norfolk) : topographic name for someone who lived by a sand-hill or sandy slope, from Middle English sand ‘sand’ + hille ‘hill’ or helde, hilde ‘slope’.

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