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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a furrier or fur trader, from Old High German zobel ‘sable fur’.
  • German : nickname from Middle High German zoblen ‘to tease’, ‘to scrap or fight’.
  • German : from a personal name, Zobelo.

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