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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Hägler) : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge or enclosure, Middle High German hac, + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant (compare Doerfler), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.

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