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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of handles, hooks, or hangers, from Middle High German hengel ‘handle’.
  • German : from a pet form of the personal name Heng.
  • Shortened form of Dutch van Hengel, a habitational name for someone from Hengel, near Houthalen, in the Belgian province of Limburg.

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