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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : in northern and central Germany, from a pet form of Friedrich.
  • German : in northern Germany, a nickname for a dirty person, from Low German fickel ‘piglet’, ‘sow’.
  • German : in southern Germany, from a pet form of Vigil(ius).

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