Where Does the Dillworth Surname Come From?

There is no single Dillworth family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

What Dillworth means

Long before computers fixed spellings, Dillworth and Dilworth were used side by side. Its meaning, shared with Dilworth, is “Someone who came from Dilworth (homestead where dill was grown)”.

Dillworth adds “l” to Dilworth, a small change that appeared as the name was written down. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Dillworth ranked 52,482 in the 2010 US Census, with 395 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

Get the complete Dillworth report, with a museum-style coat of arms.