Frequency: (546)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Possibly a respelling of German Nöggel, a variant of Nöckel, a South German topographic name from Nock ‘hill’, ‘peak’, ‘rock’, or of Nagel 1.
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