Dahle Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

People called Dahle share their surname's story with Dahl, its better-known spelling. The name is generally explained as “Valley”. Dahle adds “e” to Dahl, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

In the 2010 US Census, 1,716 Americans gave Dahle as their last name (rank 16,687). That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Dahle, so the heraldry linked to Dahl is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Dahle family name pack.