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dill Name Meaning and History

  1. German: metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of dill, an aromatic culinary and medicinal herb, Old English dile, dyle.
  3. English: nickname from Middle English dell, dill, dull ‘dull’, ‘foolish’.
  4. English: from an Old English personal name Dylli or Dylla.
  5. Possibly a reduced form of Scottish McDill.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dill Families in the US in 1920
Number of dill families
 145-288
 49-144		 1-48
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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