Distel Family History
- Distel Name Meaning
- German, North German, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of ground overgrown with thistles, or perhaps a nickname for a ‘prickly’ person, from Middle High German, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch distel ‘thistle’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): probably in most cases an unflattering name bestowed on Jews by non-Jewish government officials in 18th- and 19th-century central Europe.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 30,060 Historical Documents with Distel on Ancestry
- 17,764 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,110 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,385 Military Records
- 879 Immigration Records
- 6,922 Member Trees
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Number of Distel families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Distel 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
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