Family name origins & meanings
- German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for someone with long or otherwise notable legs, from Middle High German schenkel, Middle Dutch schenkel, schinkel ‘thigh’, ‘lower leg’, German Schenkel ‘thigh’.
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