Gabel Family History
Gabel Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for
a maker and seller of forks, from Middle High German gabel(e),
German Gabel ‘fork’. The reference is to any of the various
pieces of agricultural equipment denoted by this word, for example hay
forks, shearlegs, etc. Table forks were not used in Germany for eating
before the 16th century.German: topographic name for
someone who lived near a fork in a road or river, or owned a forked
piece of land, from the German word in this transferred
sense.German: habitational name from any of the places called
Gabel in Germany, in Schleswig, Thuringia, Silesia, and in particular
one in Bohemia, which derive their name from Slavic jablo
‘apple tree’.German: from a short form of
Gabriel.Americanized spelling of German Gäbel
(see Gaebel) or Göbel (see Goebel).Jewish
(Ashkenazic): adoption of 1–3 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gabel Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gabel families
 75 - 148  26 - 74 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gabel families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gabel families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gabel Family Origin
Gabel Immigration Information
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Gabel Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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