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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 804,050 Historical Documents with Dill on Ancestry
- 184,569 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 97,178 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,110 Military Records
- 8,914 Immigration Records
- 487,279 Member Trees
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Number of Dill families
 23 - 44  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dill families
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20 - 37 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Dill census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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