Frequency: (307)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: nickname from Middle High German gogel ‘lively’, ‘boisterous’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Alois, Gerhard, Rainer.
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