Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from Yiddish redl ‘little wheel’, ‘tool for perforating matzoth’.
- German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with hrōd ‘fame’, ‘victory’ as a first element.
- North German : occupational name for a cook, from Middle Low German rēdel ‘cooked food’.
- Possibly an altered spelling of German Rödel (see Roedel).