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dilling Name Meaning and History

  1. English: of uncertain derivation; it may be from Dylling ‘son of Dylla’, or from dylling ‘the dull one’.
  2. German: metronymic from the female personal name Dilli, in Westphalia a pet form of Ottilie.
  3. German: variant of Dillinger.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dilling Families in the US in 1920
Number of dilling families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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