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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Flügel) : Americanized spelling of south German Pflügl, Pfliegl, metonymic occupational names for a plow maker or, by extension, for a farmer, from a diminutive of Middle High German pfluoc ‘plow’.
  • German (also Flügel) : topographic name from the field name Flügel, literally ‘wing’, denoting a jutting piece of land extending beyond the boundaries of a farmer’s land.

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