Dill Family History
Dill Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle
High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.English:
metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of dill, an
aromatic culinary and medicinal herb, Old English dile,
dyle.English: nickname from Middle English dell,
dill, dull ‘dull’, ‘foolish’.English: from an Old
English personal name Dylli or Dylla.Possibly a reduced form of Scottish McDill. WN.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dill
Name Distribution of Dill Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dill families
 145 - 288  49 - 144 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dill families
|
23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dill families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dill census records
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Dill Family Origin
Dill Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Dill
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Dill Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Dill census records
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Dill Civil War Service Records
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