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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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