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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : northern habitational name for someone from Dalle near Celle.
  • German : perhaps from an old personal name formed with a stem cognate with Anglo-Saxon deal ‘proud’, ‘famous’ + man ‘man’.
  • German : topographic name from Low German Dalle, Delle ‘depression’, ‘hollow’ (cognate with standard German Tal, English dale).

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