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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for someone with a good voice, from Middle English nighti(n)gale (Old English nihtegal, from niht ‘night’ + galan ‘sing’).
  • Probably a translation of German and Jewish Nachtigall, or cognates in other languages.

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