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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician : variant of Ruibal (Spanish Rubial), a habitational name from any of numerous places in Galicia, so named from a derivative of ruivo ‘red’ (Latin rubeus), denoting red earth.
  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Rübal (see Ruebel).

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