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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone living on or by a hill, from Middle High German bühel ‘hill’, ‘knoll’.
  • South German : topographic name for someone who lived by a curve in a street or river or in a nook, from Middle High German biegel ‘nook’, ‘curve’.

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