Frequency: (127)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
South German: topographic name for someone living near the corner of a street or mountain, or by a promontory, from Middle High German egge ‘corner’ + diminutive -l + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant. Compare Eck, Egger.
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