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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Rüpel) and Slovenian : from a pet form of Ruprecht. From the 16th century, the name came to mean ‘lout’ and some late formations of the surname may have arisen from a nickname from this sense. It may also be an altered spelling of German Ruppel.

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