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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Vögele, a metonymic occupational name for a bird catcher or a nickname for someone with birdlike features, a diminutive of Vogel (compare Fegley), or alternatively of Swiss German Fügle or Fügli, a nickname for a skillful person, from Middle High German vuoc, vüege ‘skill’.

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