Hengel Family History
Hengel Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a maker of handles hooks or hangers from Middle High German hengel ‘handle’. German: from a pet form of the personal name Heng . Compare Henkel . Dutch (Van Hengel): habitational name for someone from the places Hengelo in Overijssel or Hengelo in Gelderland or from one of farms so named from heinge ‘fence’ + lo ‘open space in woodland’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022