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Surname Etymology and Meaning of DILL

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. German: metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.
2. English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of dill, an aromatic culinary and medicinal herb, Old English dile, dyle.
3. English: nickname from Middle English dell, dill, dull ‘dull’, ‘foolish’.
4. English: from an Old English personal name Dylli or Dylla.
5. Possibly a reduced form of Scottish McDill.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)