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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Irish : unexplained; most probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place somewhere in South Wales or southern England. This name was established in County Meath, Ireland, soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century.
  • Dutch : unexplained.
  • Probably a respelling of German Tiling, a patronymic form of Thiel.

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