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The edel Surname

edel Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from a short form of the Germanic personal name Edilo, formed with Old High German adal ‘tribe’, ‘family’, ‘nobility’.
  2. German: status name from Middle High German edel ‘noble’. See also Edelmann.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Eydl, meaning ‘noble’.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from modern German edel ‘noble’, ‘splendid’, ‘fine’. See also Adel 3.

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

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Distribution of edel Families in the US in 1920
Number of edel families
 30-58
 11-29		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 20 - Messages: 75
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Grandparents John Edel 28
EDEL Family from Minnesota!!!! Becky 6
Looking for a Margaret Edel mdickson12 0
Clara Edel mprsr 6
Edward J Edel mpreble20 0
Matthias Edel born in Phila. 1797 Alicorn24 12
EDEL - EDELL - EDAL Sally Edell Dutton 0
Edel's back to 1630 Alicorn24 1
Edel's in MD Jennifer 1
EDEL - EDELL , George from Philadelphia, born abt. 1854 Sally Edell Dutton 0
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