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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Diefenthäler, a habitational name for someone from Diefenthal in Alsace or from any of three places in southern Germany called Tiefenthal, all named with Middle High German tief ‘deep’ + tal ‘valley’.

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