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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from either of two farmsteads in Trøndelag named Agle, the etymology of which is uncertain.
  • Possibly an Americanized form of South German Egle, from a short form of any of various Germanic personal names composed with egin, agin ‘edge (of a sword)’.

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