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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a habitational name from Fagley in West Yorkshire, so named from a dialect word feg ‘coarse grass’ + leye ‘pasture’.
  • Altered spelling of South German Vögele, Vögeli (see Voegele) or of Vög(e)ler (see Vogeler).

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