Dillon Family History
Dillon Name Meaning
English and French: from the Germanic personal name
Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root
dil ‘destroy’), introduced to Britain from France by the
Normans.English: habitational name from Dilwyn near Hereford,
recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English
diglum, dative plural of digle ‘recess’,
‘retreat’, i.e. ‘at the shady or secret places’.Irish (of
Norman origin): altered form of de Leon (see
Lyon).Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name,
a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin; either an
ornamental name from the Biblical place name Dilon (Joshua 15:38), or
an altered form of Sephardic de León (see Lyon).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dillon Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dillon families
 412 - 822  138 - 411 |
 1 - 137  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dillon families
|
122 - 241 41 - 121 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dillon Family Origin
Dillon Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dillon Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dillon Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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