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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : metonymic occupational name for a beet grower, from Middle High German ruobe ‘beet’ + the diminutive suffix -le.
  • German (Rüble) : from the personal name Rubele, Rübele, pet forms of Ruprecht (see Rupprecht).
  • Americanized spelling of Rubel.

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