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The apel Surname

apel Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and North German: variant of Appel ‘apple’.
  2. North German and Dutch: from a pet form of Albrecht.
  3. Dutch (van Apel): habitational name from a place called Ap(p)el, near Groningen.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Yiddish-German variant of Apfel. See also Appel.
  5. Czech: from the German personal name (see 2).

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Distribution of apel Families in the US in 1920
Number of apel families
 22-41
 8-21
 1-7
 0
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