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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from the personal name Pagel, a Low German form of Paul.
  • North German (Pägel) : metonymic occupational name for a calibrator, from Low German pegel ‘water level gauge’, ‘small container’ (see Pegler 3).
  • French : diminutive of Page.

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