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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Siegel 2.
  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German sickel ‘kid’, ‘young goat’.
  • Dutch and Belgian (van der Sickel) : habitational name for someone from a place called Sikkel, for example in Asse, Brabant; or a habitational name from a house sign denoting the shop of a sicklesmith (from sikkel ‘sickle’).

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