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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name (reflecting the pronunciation of the place name) for someone from Finchale in Durham, named from Old English finc ‘finch’ + halh ‘nook or corner of land’.
  • English : possibly a metonymic occupational name or topographic name from Middle English fenkel ‘fennel’. Compare Fennell.
  • Respelling of German Finkel.

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