Family name origins & meanings
- English : see Rumley.
- Probably an Americanized spelling of Swiss German Rümbeli, from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German hruom ‘fame’, or of South German Rümple, Rümpfle, or Rümpfli, humorous nicknames for someone who was short and stocky, from Middle High German rump(h) ‘bent’, ‘crooked’.