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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English hekel ‘to comb (flax or hemp) with a heckle’.
  • South German : occupational name for someone who used a small hoe, from a diminutive of Middle High German hacke hoe + the agent suffix -er.
  • German : variant of Häckler (see Hackler).

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