When Henriette Wilhelmine Zille was born on 19 February 1812, her father, Carl Friedrich Zille, was 42 and her mother, Hanna Christliebe Klug, was 45. She died on 14 August 1812, at the age of 0.
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Danish: from the Old Norse personal name Bille meaning ‘axe, hatchet’.
German (mainly North Rhine-Westphalia) and Danish (of German origin): nickname for someone with a conspicuous bottom, from Middle Low German bille ‘buttock’.
French, Walloon, and Flemish: from Old French bille ‘block, piece of tree trunk; stick, plank’ (a word of Gaulish origin), probably used as a metonymic occupational name for a sawyer or a carpenter, joiner.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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