Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Nebel ‘fog’, ‘mist’, Middle High German nēbel. This could be a nickname, or alternatively a habitational name from any of several places so named in Schleswig-Holstein and Bavaria. In some cases it may be a shortened form of the Germanic personal name Nibelunc, Nebelung.
- Altered spelling of German Knebel.