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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Norman personal name Rumbald, composed of the Germanic elements rūm ‘wide’, ‘spacious’ (or, more plausibly, a byform of hrūm ‘renown’) + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.
  • German : variant of Rumpold, Rombold, variants of Rumpel 1.

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