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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of German Treibel : from a diminutive of Traub.
  • Altered spelling of German Treibel : from Middle High German tribel ‘mallet’, a metonymic occupational name for a cooper, goldsmith, or silversmith.

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