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Pickel Name Meaning

Southern German: metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used pickaxes or a nickname for a gambler; a variant of Bickel 1. Dutch: from Middle Dutch pickel ‘leg’, hence a nickname for someone with long or otherwise remarkable legs, or a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Pikeli in Lithuania.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


Similar surnames: Picker, Bickel, Pick, Sickel, Gockel, Winkel, Nickel, Rickel, Mickel

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Pickel Family Origin

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Pickel Family Occupations

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  • Farmer

    34%

  • Laborer

    11%

  • Keeping House

    7%

  • Farm Laborer

    3%

In 1880, Farmer, Laborer and Keeping House were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Pickel. The most common Pickel occupation in the USA was Farmer. 34% of Pickel's were Farmers. A less common occupation for the Pickel family was Farm Laborer.

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Pickel Historical Records

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Pickel Life Expectancy

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