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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire) : unexplained.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Diegel or Swiss Digel, from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with þeudo- ‘people’, ‘tribe’.

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