Last name origins & meanings:
- Northern English: of uncertain origin, perhaps a habitational
name from a minor place named with Old Norse gafl ‘gable’,
which was applied to a triangular-shaped hill. The mountain called
Great Gable in Cumbria is named in this way.
- Americanized spelling
of German and Jewish Gabel.
- Possibly an altered
spelling of German Göbel (see Goebel).
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