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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for someone who piloted a river barge, from Middle High German zülle, zulle, zille ‘river barge’.
  • German : from the personal name Cyliak (a variant of Cyriak; see Zilch) or of the female personal name Cäcilie (German form of Cecilia).

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