Family name origins & meanings
- Possibly a respelling of Dutch Becknel, which Debrabandere suggests could either be from Middle Dutch beckenell ‘helmet’, ‘skull’ or from French Becquerel ‘prattler’, ‘babbler’, the name of several watermills.
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