The riegel Surname
riegel Name Meaning and History
German: from Middle High German rigel ‘bar’, ‘crossbeam’,
‘mountain incline’, hence a topographic name or a habitational name
from any of numerous places named with this word in Baden,
Brandenburg, and Silesia; in some instances it may have been a
metonymic occupational name for a maker of crossbars, locks, etc.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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