Boeckel Family History
Boeckel Name Meaning
German (Böckel) and Dutch (Van Boeckel): habitational name from any of several places called Böckel in the Rhineland Westphalia and Lower Saxony or from the villages of Boekel in North Holland and North Brabant. German (Böckel): nickname from a diminutive of Middle High German boc ‘buck ram’. Compare Beckel .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022