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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a spindle maker, from an agent derivative of Middle English spindle, Middle High German spindel, German Spindel, Yiddish shpindl ‘spindle’, ‘distaff’.

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