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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Van der Wielen) : probably a topographic name from the plural of Middle Dutch wiele, variant of wal ‘pool, eddy, or mudflat resulting from a breach in a dike’. See also Vanderwaal, Vanderweele, Vandewiele.

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