Dahl Family History
- Dahl Name Meaning
- Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, North German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from any of the medieval and modern forms of Germanic dala-, Old Norse dalr, ‘valley’. Throughout Norway and elsewhere in Scandinavia this is a common farm name. In some cases it is a habitational name from places in Germany named Dahl or Dahle, from the same word. As a Jewish family name this is a habitational name or an ornamental adoption.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 671,907 Historical Documents with Dahl on Ancestry
- 333,027 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 110,523 Census and Voter Lists
- 23,385 Military Records
- 48,430 Immigration Records
- 156,542 Member Trees
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Number of Dahl families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dahl families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dahl census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Dahl census records
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