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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German knebel ‘peg’, ‘stake’ and, by extension ‘ankle’, ‘uncouth person’, this latter connotation is found particularly in southeast German and Silesian dialects.
  • German : diminutive of Knabe.

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