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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (van Singel) : habitational name for someone from any of various minor places in Belgium named Singel, for example in Brugge (West Flanders), Lombeek (Brabant), and Sleidinge (East Flanders), or a topographic name for someone who lived by a wall or way encircling a town.

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