FamilyEducation.com
   
 

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): pet form of Reuben, or possibly an ornamental adoption of Russian rubl ‘rouble’, the Russian unit of currency.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Rübal (see Rubel) or of Swiss German Reubel the latter being from a Germanic personal name formed with hrōd ‘renown’, for example Robert.