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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a sluice or water management system in low-lying land, from zijl ‘sluice’, ‘pump’, or a habitational name from places in the provinces of South Holland and Utrecht named with this word.

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