The fackler Surname
fackler Name Meaning and History
- occupational name for a torchmaker or for someone whose job was to light or carry a torch, from Middle High German vackel ‘torch’ + agent suffix -er.
- Eastern German: from a short form of the Slavic personal name Wenceslaw or other Slavic names beginning with Vech- or Vach.
- Americanized spelling of Fachler, an occupational name for a surveyor of fish pens (see Fecher).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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