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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Hibbeler, a derivative of the personal name Hibbo, a pet form of any of the many several Germanic personal names formed with hild ‘strife’ as the first element.
  • North German : nickname for a fidgety person, from hibbelen, hiwwelen ‘to act nervously’.

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