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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a rough person, from Middle High German reitel ‘cudgel’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from southeastern Yiddish reydl ‘little wheel’, ‘tool for perforating matzoth’ (see Redel).
  • Altered spelling or variant of German Riedel.

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