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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained. Probably a metonymic occupational name for a venison butcher or sausage maker, from Middle English umbels, numbels ‘offal’ (of a deer), earlier ‘loin or haunch’ (of a deer), a word of Old French origin.

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