Family name origins & meanings
- German : from an old personal name, Damo, a short form of a compound name formed with Old High German tac ‘day’.
- Perhaps an altered spelling of German Demmler, a southern nickname for a glutton, from an agent derivative of Middle High German demmen ‘to indulge oneself’, or a northern nickname from Middle Low German damelaer, demeler ‘prankster’, ‘flirt’.