Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a diminutive of Fink.
  • German : indirect occupational name for a blacksmith, from a derivative of finken ‘to make sparks’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish finkl ‘sparkle’.
  • English : variant spelling of Finkle.

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