Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Siegel 2.
- North German : nickname from Middle Low German sickel ‘kid’, ‘young goat’.
- Dutch and Belgian (van der Sickel) : habitational name for someone from a place called Sikkel, for example in Asse, Brabant; or a habitational name from a house sign denoting the shop of a sicklesmith (from sikkel ‘sickle’).