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dies Name Meaning and History

  1. Possibly an altered spelling of German Diess, from a short form of the Biblical name Matthias (see Matthew).
  2. German: from the Germanic personal name Teuzo, from theud ‘people’, ‘race’ (Old High German diot).

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dies Family Facts

Distribution of dies Families in the US in 1920
Number of dies families
 14-26
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 21 - Messages: 96
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Martin Dies irishpeevy 6
Dies Family John Dies 22
Matilda Dies, wife of Napoleon Faulkner CarolJohnson577 0
Dies Family New York annpaul1 1
Dies, Dias from PA Heather 1
Guiseppe Diesi (Dieze) & Lena Arite E Ray 0
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Robert Dies b1825 TN Bob Dies 11
Dies of New York Stephen J. Kelsey 20

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