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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably from the Germanic personal name Ubaldin, or Ubbo (Oppo), a short form of various compound personal names beginning with od ‘property’, ‘possession’.
  • German : nickname from Middle High German ubel ‘bad’, ‘evil’.

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