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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English sengler, syngler ‘singular’ (Old French se(i)ngler), perhaps a nickname for a solitary person.
  • German : topographic name for a valley dweller, from a diminutive of Middle High German senke ‘valley’ + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Singeln near Waldshut.
  • German : variant of Sing 1.

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