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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German betzeler ‘young knight’ (from Old French bachelier, Italian baccalare, which gave rise to baccalaureus).
  • German : possibly a variant of the old German surname Becceler, itself a variant of Böckeler (see Boeckel).

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