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Bickelhaupt                                           Woods

The name Bickelhaupt is relatively rare. It is mostly found in southern Hessen, Odenwald.
Some Bickelhaupt's have penetrated even to America
and settled there.
And the name has nothing to do with a spiked helmet,
that comical headgear from times past.

 

South German: probably from Middle High German becken- or beckelhube ‘bowl-shaped helmet’, applied as a nickname for someone who wore one, but later reinterpreted through folk etymology as Bickel ‘pickaxe’ + Haupt ‘head’, i.e. ‘thick head’ or ‘pointed head’.