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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: from a short form of the Germanic personal name Edilo, formed with Old High German adal ‘tribe’, ‘family’, ‘nobility’.
  2. German: status name from Middle High German edel ‘noble’. See also Edelmann.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Eydl, meaning ‘noble’.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from modern German edel ‘noble’, ‘splendid’, ‘fine’. See also Adel 3.