The juhl Surname
juhl Name Meaning and History
- Danish and Norwegian: nickname for someone who was born on Christmas Day or had some other connection with this time of year, from Old Norse jól. This was originally the name of a pagan midwinter festival, which was later appropriated by the Christian Church for celebration of the birth of Christ.
- German: in North Germany, an adoption of the Danish surname; elsewhere a nickname or topographic name from a Slavic stem gol ‘naked’, ‘barren’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Juhl's of Fredonia Twp., Plmouth Co., Iowa |
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| Molly M. Juhl |
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| Katherine Dorothea Juhl |
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| william juhl, lived in brayton, iowa at one time |
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| Juhl Family Birth List | Russ Juhl | 1 |
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| Juhl"s in Pomerania (Prussia) | Russ Juhl | 0 |
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