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drilling Name Meaning and History

German: nickname for one of triplets, from Middle High German dri ‘three’ + -ling suffix denoting affiliation.

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

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Distribution of drilling Families in the US in 1920
Number of drilling families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 12 - Messages: 31
ThreadAuthorReplies
Franz Drilling jenilee01 1
Dreilings mjlehn 0
joseph drilling bethkenyon 5
Joe Drilling, son in law of Mayme Marie (Manginen) [Suutarivappu] Nynas, 1909-2001 stonecoldead 1
Drilling Ken Hall 0
Would like to find descendents GingerDonohue 0
Bernard DRILLING from Prussia >Conway Co., AR Jan Porterfield 3
Bernard Drilling Jan Porterfield 0
Great grandfather Fred Drilling 8
The Drillings of Baldwin, Michigan Chi Rouse 1
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