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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Thule in Silesia, or Thüle or Thülen in Westphalia.
  • German : nickname for someone with an unusual style or growth of hair, from Middle Low German tūl ‘tuft’.

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