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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Radel.
  • German : from a Slavic personal name formed with rad- ‘joyful’.
  • German (Rädle) : metonymic occupational name for a wheelwright, from a diminutive of Middle High German rat ‘wheel’.

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