Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : variant of Gimpel.
- German : nickname for a simpleton, from Middle High German gümpel ‘bullfinch’.
- German : nickname (probably obscene), from Middle High German gimpel ‘springer’, ‘jumper’, also ‘penis’.
- German : from a Germanic personal name formed with gund ‘fight’, ‘battle’ (see Gombert).