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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from the female personal name Bijl, a reduced form of a female personal name such as Amabilia or Sibilia.
  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a maker of axes or adzes, from Dutch bijl ‘axe’, ‘adze’.

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