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dull Name Meaning and History

  1. South German (Düll): nickname for a stubborn man (‘thick head’), probably from a south German dialect word tull ‘stout’, ‘corpulent’.
  2. German: variant of Thiel.
  3. Scottish: habitational name from Dull in Perthshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dull Families in the US in 1920
Number of dull families
 106-209
 36-105		 1-35
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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