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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : (also Rädel): from a pet form of any of the various Germanic personal names composed with rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’, for example Konrad.
  • German : habitational name from Rädel near Potsdam.

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