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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : variant of Rommel.
  • German : perhaps a nickname for a noisemaker, from Middle High German rummeln ‘to make noise’, ‘to move impetuously’, which, however, is not recorded until the 15th century.

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