Wenzel Family History
Wenzel Name Meaning
German and Danish: from the German personal name Wenzel a pet form (with the diminutive suffix -l) of the Middle High German Wenze a borrowing from Slavic a short form of the personal name found in Old Czech as Vęceslav (see Vaclav ). The borrowing into German took place before Czech lost its nasal vowels. The surname of German origin is also found in some central European countries e.g. in Czechia where it is more commonly spelled in Slavicized forms Vencl and Vencel Compare Vencill Vensel and Wentzel Germanized form of Slovenian Vencelj (see Vencel ) a cognate of 1 above. Compare Wentzel
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022