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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Hägele) : from a pet form of the personal name Hagin (see Hagen).
  • German (Hägele) : topographic name from Middle High German hagen ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’.
  • German (Hägele) : nickname or metonymic occupational nickname from a Swabian dialect word denoting a breeding bull.

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