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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Bögel) : from a pet form of Bogo, itself a short form of the personal name Bogenhart.
  • North German (Bögel) : from Middle Low German bog(h)el ‘stirrup’, ‘bow’, ‘yoke ring’, hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of such items.

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