Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : nickname from Old French vieil, viel ‘old’.
- variant of German Viel.
- Southern Italian (Apulia) : unexplained.
- Cornelis Volkertszen Viele was an innkeeper in New Amsterdam as early as 1639. Aerout Cornelissen Viele (b. 1640 in New Amsterdam) was a skilled Indian interpreter and negotiator.