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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Swabia) : variant diminutive form of a derogatory Swabian nickname from Räuber ‘robber’, ‘bandit’.
  • Variant of German Reubal or Rübal (see Roubal).

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