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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Sorbian (w)robel ‘sparrow’.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg.
  • German : from a pet form of Robert or a Germanic personal name formed with hrōd ‘renown’ + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.

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