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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Dale (from the Old Kentish form del) or a habitational name from Deal in Kent, named with this word.
  • Americanized spelling of German Diel or Diehl.
  • Dutch (de Ruyter) : variant spelling (17th century) of De Ruiter

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