Dell Family History

English: topographic name for someone who lived in a small deep valley from Middle English dell ‘dell’ (Old English dell ‘pit valley’) or a habitational name arising from any of several minor places called Dell derived from this word for example in Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Sussex.

English and Scottish: variant of Dill.

German: topographic name from Low German delle ‘dell depression’ (Middle High German telle ‘gorge’).

Jewish (from Latvia): habitational name from the village of Delle near Daugavpils, Latvia.