Nightingale Family History
Nightingale Name Meaning
English: nickname for someone with a good voice from Middle English nightegale ‘nightingale’ (Old English nihtegale from niht ‘night’ + galan ‘sing’). The bird is known as a sweet singer. Probably an Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Nachtigall or cognates in other languages.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022