Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone living in a small wooded dell or hollow, Middle English dingle (of uncertain origin). There is a district of Liverpool called Dingle.
- South German : nickname or status name for a smallholder, from Middle High German dingelīn ‘smallholding’.
- Americanized spelling of the old Prussian name Dingel or Dyngele, possibly from Germanic thing ‘legal assembly’.