Feigele Feigele — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Feigele is from the Yiddish פֿייגעלע — feigl (bird) + -ele (diminutive) — little bird. A modern American baby name in the broader Yiddish heritage aesthetic. Feigele is one of the foundational Yiddish feminine diminutives — central to traditional Ashkenazi Jewish heritage across Eastern Europe (Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and Hungary). Closely related to Feiga + Tzipora (Hebrew bird). The Yiddish Feigele Lieder (little bird songs) are foundational works of traditional Yiddish folk music. The foundational Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever wrote about the feigele as a foundational symbol of pre-Holocaust Eastern European Jewish life. Foundational Yiddish-Ashkenazi feminine name reflecting the broader Jewish diminutive-affection tradition.

Featured throughout Yiddish-Ashkenazi heritage.