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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a quarrelsome or pugnacious person, Middle High German bieger ‘quarreler’.
  • German : of Slavic origin, from a personal name (bēgati ‘to run’).
  • German : variant of Biegel 2.

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