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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: occupational name for a torchmaker or for someone whose job was to light or carry a torch, from Middle High German vackel ‘torch’ + agent suffix -er.
  2. German: from a short form of the Slavic personal name Wenceslaw or other Slavic names beginning with Vech- or Vach.
  3. German: Americanized spelling of Fachler, an occupational name for a surveyor of fish pens (see Fecher).