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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : reduced form of the personal name Thietilo, an early medieval pet form of Dietrich (German), Diederik (Dutch), or from some other compound name with the same first element.
  • Eastern German : from a short form of Sorbian Bartyl, from the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).

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