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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English and Scottish : variant of Tinker.
  • Probably an altered spelling of German Dinkler, a metonymic occupational name for a grain farmer or grain merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German dinkel ‘spelt’ (a variety of wheat).

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