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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (usually Göbel) : see Goebel.
  • French and English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of goblets and tankards, from Old French gobel ‘drinking vessel’, ‘cup’ (apparently from Celtic gob ‘mouth’).
  • English : in some cases possibly a variant of Godbold. Compare Goble.

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