Dutch (also Van Winckle, Van Winkel): topographic
name for someone who lived on a corner (either a street corner or a
corner of land), from Dutch winkel ‘corner’, ‘nook’, or a
habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in
North Holland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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