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Gabel

in Texas

There are 281 people with the last name "Gabel" in Texas.

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Gabel 6,544
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  1. is 6,540th most common Cevallos
  2. is 6,541st most common Cypert
  3. is 6,542nd most common Dane
  4. is 6,543rd most common Fitzsimmons
  5. is 6,544th most common Gabel
  6. is 6,545th most common Harvell
  7. is 6,546th most common Jamerson
  8. is 6,547th most common Koen
  9. is 6,548th most common Kubicek

Similar Names and Nicknames

Gaber, Gobel, Gabe, Gabehart, Gabert, Gebel, Gabelman, Gavel, Gobeli, Gobeil

Most Common First Names for Gabel

Richard, Kenneth, Mary, Robert, William, David, Lawrence, Michael, Paul, Tim

Meaning & History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of forks, from Middle High German gabel(e), German Gabel ‘fork’. The reference is to any of the various pieces of agricultural equipment denoted by this word, for example hay forks, shearlegs, etc. Table forks were not used in Germany for eating before the 16th century.

German: topographic name for someone who lived near a fork in a road or river, or owned a forked piece of land, from the German word in this transferred sense.

German: habitational name from any of the places called Gabel in Germany, in Schleswig, Thuringia, Silesia, and in particular one in Bohemia, which derive their name from Slavic jablo ‘apple tree’.

German: from a short form of Gabriel.

Americanized spelling of German Gäbel (see Gaebel) or Göbel (see Goebel).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of 1–3 above.

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