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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German kobel ‘rock’, ‘gorge’.
  • German : eastern German habitational name for someone from any of several places, mainly in Silesia, of Slavic origin, e.g. Kobel, Kobeln, Koblau, which are named from Slavic kobyla ‘mare’.
  • German : from Kobel ‘laborer’s cottage’, ‘hut’, hence, by metonymy, a bondsman or serf.

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