Boy name origins & meanings
- Slavic : Wreath; glory
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- German : from the personal name Wenzel, a pet form (with the German diminutive suffix -el) of the Middle High German personal name Wenze, a borrowing from Slavic representing a short form of the Old Czech personal name Vęceslav (see Vacek; the borrowing took place before Czech lost its nasal vowels).