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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : topographic name from Old English hind ‘female deer’ + Old English dæl ‘valley’.
  • English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in the parish of Whalley, Lancashire, so called from the same first element + Old English hyll ‘hill’.

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