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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cheshire) : from Middle English hekel ‘heckle’, an implement for combing or scutching flax or hemp for spinning, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used heckles.
  • French (Alsace; Hecklé) : from a diminutive of German Heck 2.

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