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Dillon

in Virginia

There are 1,842 people with the last name "Dillon" in Virginia.

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Dillon 370
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  1. is 366th most common Francis
  2. is 367th most common Wilkerson
  3. is 368th most common Frye
  4. is 369th most common Clements
  5. is 370th most common Dillon
  6. is 371st most common Belcher
  7. is 372nd most common Rodgers
  8. is 373rd most common Stokes
  9. is 374th most common Collier

Similar Names and Nicknames

Dillard, Dill, Dilley, Dillman, Dillingham, Diller, Dills, Dillow, Dillion, Dillinger

Most Common First Names for Dillon

William, James, John, David, Michael, Robert, Thomas, Mary, Matthew, Patricia

Meaning & History

English and French: from the Germanic personal name Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dīl ‘destroy’), introduced to Britain from France by the Normans.

English: habitational name from Dilwyn near Hereford, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘recess’, ‘retreat’, i.e. ‘at the shady or secret places’.

Irish (of Norman origin): altered form of de Leon (see Lyon).

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin; either an ornamental name from the Biblical place name Dilon (Joshua 15:38), or an altered form of Sephardic de León (see Lyon).

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