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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone living near the corner of a street or mountain, or by a promontory, from Middle High German egge ‘corner’ + diminutive -l + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant. Compare Eck, Egger.

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