Winkel Family History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived on a piece of land enclosed by woods or rivers or on a street corner in a town or city from Middle High German winkel German Winkel ‘corner’. In time this word also came to denote a corner shop (see Winkelmann Winkler).

This surname is also found in Denmark, Poland, and France (mainly Lorraine). German: habitational name from any of various places called Winkel.

Dutch and Flemish (Van Winkel, Van der Winkel, Van den Winkel): habitational name from any of numerous minor places called with winkel ‘corner’, for example (Ten) Winkel in many provinces of Belgium and the Netherlands or either of two places called Oostwinkel in East and West Flanders.