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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Dägel) : Probably a Bavarian dialect variant of Diegel ‘potter’. Alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name for a tiler or a maker of roof tiles, from Low German tegel ‘tile’. Compare Tegeler.
  • German (Dägel) : From a short form of a Germanic personal name based on tac ‘day’.

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