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The dillon Surname

dillon Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: from the Germanic personal name Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil ‘destroy’), introduced to Britain from France by the Normans.
  2. English: habitational name from Dilwyn near Hereford, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English diglum, dative plural of digle ‘recess’, ‘retreat’, i.e. ‘at the shady or secret places’.
  3. Irish (of Norman origin): altered form of de Leon (see Lyon).
  4. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
  5. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin; either an ornamental name from the Biblical place name Dilon (Joshua 15:38), or an altered form of Sephardic de León (see Lyon).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dillon Families in the US in 1920
Number of dillon families
 448-893
 150-447		 1-149
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