English: unexplained. Probably a metonymic occupational name for a
venison butcher or sausage maker, from Middle English umbels,
numbels ‘offal’ (of a deer), earlier ‘loin or haunch’ (of a
deer), a word of Old French origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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