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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Middle High German igel, German Igel ‘hedgehog’, given perhaps to a prickly or unapproachable person. There is a place near Trier called Igel, but it does not seem to have contributed to the surname. As a Jewish surname it is mainly ornamental.

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