Family name origins & meanings
- Southern German : metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used pickaxes or a nickname for a gambler; a variant of Bickel 1.
- Dutch : from Middle Dutch pickel ‘leg’, hence a nickname for someone with long or otherwise remarkable legs, or a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Pikeli in Lithuania.