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Van Dale

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, from van ‘from’ + daal ‘valley’, or habitational name from any of various places named with this word, in particular Daal in Utrecht and Limburg.

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