Bickel

English

Alternative forms

• Bickell

Etymology

From an Old English surname, from Bickleigh in Devon, from the personal name Bicca (“pickaxe”) + leah (“wooded area”). For the first element see Proto-Germanic *pikkōną.

Proper noun

Bickel (plural Bickels)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bickel is the 4990^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7035 individuals. Bickel is most common among White (95.58%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bickel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 155.

Anagrams

• Bickle, belick