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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name from Westphalian tempel ‘knoll’, ‘round hill’ or a habitational name from any of fifteen places so named.
  • Dutch (van den Tempel, van der Tempel) : habitational name from any of various places named De Tempel.

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