Brickel Family History
Brickel Name Meaning
Americanized form of South German and Swiss German Brückel Brückl: topographic name for someone who lived by a small bridge from a diminutive of Middle High German brücke ‘bridge’. Compare Brickell and Brickle . South German: nickname perhaps for a stocky squat person related to the word Bröckel a diminutive of Brocken ‘chunk’. English: variant of Brickell .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022