The bickel Surname
bickel Name Meaning and History
- Dutch and German: from bickel ‘pickaxe’ or ‘chisel’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made pickaxes or worked with a pickaxe or for a stonemason. Compare Bick.
- German: nickname for a dice player, from the same word in the sense ‘die’.
- South German: from a pet form of Burkhart.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a diminutive of Bick.
- English: variant spelling of Bickell.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Jacob Bickel 1754-1822 |
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| Christoph Bickel - Montgomery Co., PA |
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| Looking for Information on August Bickel | Jon Bickel | 8 |
| John Bickel | Beverly Hamilton (Bickel) | 1 |
| Dr. S.E.Bickel - 1893 | Judy Leago | 1 |
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| Karl Friedrich Bickel lived in Chicago |
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| Merrill E Bickel, Peter Rudolph Bickel |
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