Waldvogel
Appearance
Look up Waldvogel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Waldvogel (from German: Wald "forest" plus Vogel "bird", thus literally "bird of the forest")[1][2] and its Ashkenazic variant Waldfogel[3] is a Swiss German surname from a nickname[1] denoting a carefree, easy-going person and may refer to:
Waldfogel
[edit]- Jane Waldfogel, American social economist
- Joel Waldfogel (born 1962), American economist
Waldvogel
[edit]- Anton Waldvogel (1846–1917), Austrian technician and traffic planner
- Christian Waldvogel (born 1971), Swiss architect
- Georg Waldvogel (born 1961), German ski jumper
- József Waldvogel (1872–1952), Austro-Hungarian general
- Monica Waldvogel (born 1956), Brazilian journalist
- Procopius Waldvogel (15th-century), German printer
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Waldvogel Name Meaning". ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
German: probably a nickname for a carefree, easy-going person, from Middle High German waldvogel 'bird of the forest'. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German Wald 'forest' + Vogel 'bird'.
- ^ "Waldvogel Surname Meaning & Statistics". forebears.io. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
Approximately 5,060 people bear this surname. Most prevalent in: Switzerland; Highest density in: Switzerland.
- ^ "Waldfogel Surname Meaning & Statistics". forebears.io. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
Approximately 185 people bear this surname. Most prevalent in: United States; Highest density in: Israel.