Given name & surname · also German

Diehl

“people”

Diehl is a surname from German, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic.

Original GermanTill

Meaning & origin

What it means

Diehl goes back to Proto-West Germanic *þeudu, meaning “people.”

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Where it comes from

Diehl comes from German, and ultimately from Proto-West Germanic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Proto-West Germanic *þeudu (“people”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Diehl’s family of names

In German usage, Diehl has a later derivative in DEAHL. In German usage, Diehl as a surname has a related form in Till. In English usage, Diehl as a surname has a related form in DEEL.

Walk Diehl’s family in the name graph

DiehlTillThielDeelTilleThieleDielTyllDeahl

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Germanic languages

Dirks

Dirks is a masculine given name from Germanic. It is used in English and Dutch.

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Dibert

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Germanic

Dench

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Germanic

Dykstra

“dike”

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Germanic

Bickel

“pickaxe” · “wooded area”

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Germanic

Riffel

“fame”

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German

Boell

Boell is a surname from Germanic, ultimately from German.

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Germanic

Ingeld

Ingeld is a given name from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Old English.

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Sibling ideas

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