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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : patronymic from a Middle Dutch pet form of Theudilo, a short form of Germanic compound names formed with an unattested element, theudo- ‘people’, ‘tribe’.
  • English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire) : unexplained.

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