What's the origin of the surname HEIGL ?

Question

What's the origin of the surname HEIGL ?

Answer 1

South German and Bavarian: from a pet form of the personal name Hugo (see Hugh).

Answer 2

Sounds German to me.

Answer 3

The surname is Germanic.  Similar to Hegel the philosopher who was from near Stuttgart.

It is a name I also have in my family in the 1700s in the same area.

Answer 4

It's originally South German and Bavarian

Answer 5

Sorry to be so non-specific, It could be German, Dutch or Swiss.

Answer 6

it's a german surname

Answer 7

I agree with the majority on here it sounds german to me too

Answer 8

South German and Bavarian: from a pet form of the personal name Hugo or hugh

this is from ancestry

English: from the Old French personal name Hu(gh)e, introduced to Britain by the Normans. This is in origin a short form of any of the various Germanic compound names with the first element hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’. Compare, for example, Howard 1, Hubble, and Hubert. It was a popular personal name among the Normans in England, partly due to the fame of St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140–1200), who was born in Burgundy and who established the first Carthusian monastery in England.

In Ireland and Scotland this name has been widely used as an equivalent of Celtic Aodh ‘fire’, the source of many Irish surnames