Frequency: (31)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Scandinavian, chiefly Danish and Norwegian: habitational name from a common place name, the name of several farmsteads, derived from Old Norse dalr ‘valley’. Compare Dahl.
GIVEN NAME Scandinavian 12%. Aase (2).
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