Stangel Family History
Stangel Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a diminutive of Stang . In part this is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname a variant of Stangl . The surname Stangel is also found in Czechia and Slovakia where it is also spelled Štangel. See also 2 and 3 below. Americanized form of Austrian German Stangl and its mainly Czech variant Štangl cognates of 1 above. Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Štangelj: nickname for a tall thin man at least in part of Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) origin (see 1 above and Stangl ) but possibly also derived from štanga ‘pole shaft’ (a loanword from German). Compare Stangle .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022