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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Örgel) : from Middle High German erkelin (a loanword from Latin arca ‘grape bin’, ‘vat’), hence probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in a vineyard.
  • English : variant spelling of Orgill.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Orgel ‘organ’.

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