Family name origins & meanings
- South German : topographic name from an old word bibl denoting water of some kind, or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word, for example Biebelried in Bavaria or Biblis in Hesse.
- South German : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with the elements bītan ‘to endure’ or bittan ‘to ask for’, ‘to wish’.