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The nobel Surname

nobel Name Meaning and History

  1. Swedish: shortened form of Nobelius, a Latinized habitational name from a place called Nöbbelöv. This is one of the rare genuine habitational names in Swedish, as distinct from ornamental coinages, which sometimes look like place names.
  2. German (also Nöbel): from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with not ‘distress’, ‘force’.
  3. German (also Nöbel): in some cases a habitational name from a place so named near Danzig (Polish Gdansk) and (Nöbel) from Nöbeln in Saxony.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German nobel ‘noble’.

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Distribution of nobel Families in the US in 1920
Number of nobel families
 14-26
 5-13
 1-4
 0
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