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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Tügel, a metonymic occupational name for a saddler or harness maker, from Low German Tügel ‘rein’, ‘bridle’; or from Tögl, of uncertain origin.

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