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knobel Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Swiss German (also Knöbel): from Middle High German knübel, probably a nickname in the sense ‘ankle’. However, the term also denotes a rounded elevation and may therefore also be a topographic name for someone who lived by a knoll. Knöbel is also an archaic word for a servant.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Knobel ‘knot’, ‘node’.
  3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Yiddish knobl ‘garlic’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of knobel Families in the US in 1920
Number of knobel families
 20-37
 7-19
 1-6
 0
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