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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Smooth

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (County Cork) : variant of Nangle or, according to Woulfe, possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Óglaigh ‘son of the soldier’ (a County Sligo name formerly Anglicized as MacNogly).
  • German and Dutch : Americanized spelling of Nagel or dialect Nägle.

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