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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : nickname for an obstreperous person, from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rummeln, rumpeln to make a noise, create a disturbance (of imitative origin).
  • North German and Dutch : variant of Rummel 2.

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