Krengel Family History
Krengel Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a pastrycook from Middle High German krengel German Kringel ‘(cake) ring doughnut’. As a Jewish name this may also have been adopted as artificial name. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): artificial name from Polish kręgiel ‘skittle’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022