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The adel Surname

adel Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from a short form of any of a number of personal names beginning with Old High German adal ‘noble’. Compare Edel.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from Adel ‘nobility’.
  3. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic adil ‘just’, ‘legally competent (as a witness)’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The adel name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the adel family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of adel Families in the US in 1920
Number of adel families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 4 - Messages: 11
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William Adel b1890 SD Andie Sindt 0
Wendell Adel rafuhrman 5
Katherine Adel (Edel?) gottaada2d 0
Adel Sandy 2
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