Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German ringel, diminutive of rinc, ring ‘ring’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bone, horn, or ivory rings (see Ring).
- German : topographic name for someone who lived in or by a circular plot or settlement, from the same word.
- German : metonymic occupational name for a cooper, from Middle Low German ringel ‘tub’.