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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a variant spelling of Rhenish Göbbels, a pet form of the Germanic personal name Godebert, from gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + berht ‘shining’, or a patronymic from the Frisian personal name Gubbe.

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