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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Gibel or Gibbel (see Giebel).
  • German : from a diminutive of Middle High German gippe ‘jacket’ (modern Bavarian Joppe), hence a metonymic occupational name for a tailor or a nickname for someone who habitually sported a colorful or unusual jacket.

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