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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German regel ‘(monastic) rule’ (from Latin regula), perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in a monastery.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name composed with rag- ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.

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