Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
- German: from a short form of the Slavic personal name Wenceslaw
or other Slavic names beginning with Vech- or Vach.
- German: Americanized spelling of Fachler, an occupational name for
a surveyor of fish pens (see Fecher).
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