Irish (County Cork): variant of Nangle or, according to Woulfe, possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Óglaigh ‘son of the soldier’ (a County Sligo name formerly Anglicized as MacNogly).
German and Dutch: Americanized spelling of Nagel or dialect Nägle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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