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Updated June 9, 2019

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).

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