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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German (Dägel): Probably a Bavarian dialect variant of Diegel ‘potter’. Alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name for a tiler or a maker of roof tiles, from Low German tegel ‘tile’. Compare Tegeler.
  2. German (Dägel): From a short form of a Germanic personal name based on tac ‘day’.