Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a sawyer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German dille, dil ‘plank’, ‘(floor)board’.
- German : habitational name for someone from any of various places named Dill, Dille, or Till.
- English : occupational name for a grower of dill, from an agent derivative of Old English dile (see Dill 2).