Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch and North German: variant of Appel ‘apple’.
- North German and Dutch: from a pet form of Albrecht.
- Dutch (van Apel): habitational name from a place called
Ap(p)el, near Groningen.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): Yiddish-German
variant of Apfel. See also Appel.
- Czech: from
the German personal name (see 2).
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