Given name & surname
Raffel
“to be noisy”
Raffel is a surname with more than one origin.
Original GermanRaphael
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, Raffel goes back to Middle High German raffeln, meaning “to be noisy.”
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Where it comes from
As a German surname, it comes from Middle High German raffeln.
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How it developed
From Middle High German raffeln (“to be noisy”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Raffel’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Raffel has a conventional equivalent in the German form Raphael. In English usage, Raffel as a surname has a related form in Rayfield. In English usage, Raffel has a related form in RAVEL.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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