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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : variant of Rüppel (see Ruppel), or a variant of Rüpel (see Rupel).
  • South German : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name based on rīc ‘power(ful)’, ‘rich’.

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