First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Americanized spelling of South German and Swiss Jäckle, Jaeckly, or any of the many variants of this name, which in origin are pet forms of Jacob. Compare Jaeckel.