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Ziegler Surname Meaning

Ziegler is a German occupational name for a brickmaker or bricklayer, derived from the German ziegel, meaning originally &#;roof tile&#; and later &#;brick,&#; and from ziegelbrenner meaning brickmaker.

Ziegler and Zeigler have been the spellings in America. Ziegler can also be a Jewish name.

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Ziegler and Zeigler Surname Ancestry

• from Germany (Bavaria) and from Jewish emigrants
• to America, Canada and England

Although the Ziegler name is quite common throughout Germany, it has been most frequently found in the south and southwest of the country, in particular in Bavaria.

There was an early reference to Ulreich der Zigler in the town of Eger on the border between Bavaria and Bohemia in Other early Zieglers have been:

• the theologian and cartographer Jacob Ziegler who was born at Landau in Bavaria in
• Margarethe Ziegler, the mother of the theologian Marti