Names

Variant of Dressler.

Occupational name for a maker or seller of woolen cloth, from Anglo-Norman French draper (Old French drapier, an agent derivative of drap “cloth”).

Derived from the Old Norse byname Draki or the Old English byname Draca both meaning “dragon”, both via Latin from Greek δράκων (drakon) meaning “dragon, serpent”.

Means “son of Drago”.

Means “son of Drago”.

Means “son of Dragomir”.

From a nickname meaning “dragon” in Italian.

Patronymic from any of the Slavic given names starting with Drag (see Drago).

Means “son of Dragan”.

From the Irish Ó Dubhghaill, which means “descendant of Dubhghall”. A famous bearer was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories.