Riegel Family History
Riegel Name Meaning
German:: from Middle High German rigel ‘bar crossbeam mountain incline’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of crossbars locks etc. or a topographic name for someone who lived near and was in charge of the village gate which separated the settlement from the adjacent fields. Compare Rigel . habitational name from any of numerous places in Baden Brandenburg and Silesia named Riegel (see 2 below).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022