Wachtel Family History
Wachtel Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German wahtel ‘quail’ a metonymic occupational name for a bird catcher or a nickname for a person thought to resemble the bird. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name taken from German Wachtel or Yiddish vakhtl ‘quail’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022