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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained. Compare Aduddell.
  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Dittel, from a pet form of a personal name formed with Diet (Germanic theud ‘people’, ‘race’), for example Dietrich.

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