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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Bavaria, Austrian Tyrol) : topographic name from pichl, pühl ‘hill’; in Tyrol it tends to be a habitational name from a farm named with this word.
  • North German : nickname for a drinker, from an agent derivative of Low German (Westphalian) picheln ‘to drink’.

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