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Corbell

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a basketmaker, from Old French corbeille ‘basket’, or alternatively possibly a nickname for someone with black hair, from Old French corbel ‘raven’.
  • Americanized spelling of Körbel or Korbel.
  • Americanized spelling of Dutch Corbeel, from Old French corbel ‘raven’ (see 1 above).

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