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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (also Dähler) : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley (see Dahl), or habitational name for someone from a place named with this word.
  • German : from a Germanic word meaning ‘proud’, ‘famous’ (cognate with Anglo-Saxon deal).
  • Norwegian : from the farm name Daler, plural indefinite form of dal ‘valley’ (see Dal).

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