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My friend that is a girl is named Bikel; can someone answer this question is Bikel a name someone made up or does it acually have a meaning? Also whenever I search this name I get some guy named Theodore Bikel.
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Where was this girl born? What is the ethnic and cultural background of her parents?
The surname Bikel as in Theodore Bikel is probably a Jewish surname which was originally a diminutive of a Yiddish, Polish, or Russian word meaning "ox" or "bull", since A Dictionary of Surnames gives that origin for "Bickel", and Theodore Bikel was certainly Jewish. But that may have nothing to do with your friend's given name.
The surname Bikel as in Theodore Bikel is probably a Jewish surname which was originally a diminutive of a Yiddish, Polish, or Russian word meaning "ox" or "bull", since A Dictionary of Surnames gives that origin for "Bickel", and Theodore Bikel was certainly Jewish. But that may have nothing to do with your friend's given name.
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