The rubel Surname
rubel Name Meaning and History
- variant of Rube 1, 2.
- (Rübel): metonymic occupational name from a diminutive of Middle High German ruobe (Latin rapum) ‘turnip’, ‘beet’, ‘oilseed rape’, grown for use as a fodder crop or in the case of rape for the oil obtained from its seeds.
- nickname for a big man, from a Slavic stem (Old Sorbian gruby, Czech hrubý ‘big’).
- nickname from a Germanized form of Slavic vrobl ‘sparrow’. Compare Wrobel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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