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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental from Yiddish teytl ‘date’ (the fruit).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational nickname for a teacher, from Yiddish taytl ‘pointer’.

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