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dell Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived in a small valley, from Middle English, Old English dell ‘dell’, ‘valley’, or a habitational name from any of several minor places named Dell, from this word, for example in Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Sussex.
  2. German: from Low German delle ‘dell’, ‘depression’ (Middle High German telle ‘gorge’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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dell Family Facts

Distribution of dell Families in the US in 1920
Number of dell families
 101-200
 34-100		 1-33
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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