Given name & surname · also German
Goebel
“good”
Goebel is a surname from German, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Goebel goes back to Proto-West Germanic *god, meaning “good.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Goebel comes from German, and ultimately from Proto-West Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Goebel as a surname is an affectionate form of Godebert.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1899. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Goebel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 70
- 70 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1900
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1939. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1900. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,527 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Goebel’s family of names
In English usage, Goebel as a surname is an affectionate form of Godebert.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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