The nobel Surname
nobel Name Meaning and History
- 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.
- German (also Nöbel): from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with not ‘distress’, ‘force’.
- German (also Nöbel): in some cases a habitational name from a place so named near Danzig (Polish Gdansk) and (Nöbel) from Nöbeln in Saxony.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German nobel ‘noble’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Scotland - Possible Ramsay - Nobel Family Connection |
 RobHist
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| Noble connection with Gibbons | John Fennell | 2 |
| Mary A Burlbaw Married to William A. Nobel. | Loretta Schwarz | 10 |
| William Alexander Nobel | Loretta Schwarz | 5 |
| Harriett Nobel and children |
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| Elvasti Noble | Thomas Jay | 0 |
| Morris Ernest Nobel | Lula Rhyne | 0 |
| Sophia b about 1786. mother of NOBEL Festus IRISH b Ontario | Lynn Phifer | 0 |
| Hayes Family Pictures | N Lauritsen | 0 |
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