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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German drīling ‘third (part)’, possibly denoting a service or tax obligation, and hence a status name, or a triplet.
  • German : habitational name from Drelingen near Uelzen, Lower Saxony.

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