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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German apfel ‘apple’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental or metonymic occupational name from German Apfel ‘apple’.

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