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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Vogelmann) : occupational name for a birdcatcher, from Middle High German, Middle Low German vogel ‘bird’ + man ‘man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Vogel 2, in the sense ‘husband of Foygl’.

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