Riegel Family History
Riegel Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Riegel Families
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Number of Riegel families
 83 - 163  28 - 82 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Riegel Family Origin
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Riegel Family Occupations
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