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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge or enclosure, variant spelling of Hägler (see Hagler).
  • South German : from Middle High German hagen ‘breeding bull’, an occupational nickname for the owner of such an animal.
  • North German : habitational name for someone from Hegel near Oldenburg.

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