Altered form of Norwegian Devold, a habitational name
from a farmstead in western Norway named Devoll, from
de (Old Norse digr ‘large’) + v{o,}llr ‘green
field’.
Possibly also an altered form of French Deval
(see Devall 2) or Duval 1.
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