Message: "Oebele" - Behind the Name

[Facts] Oebele

by JemimahGertrude

5/17/2019, 11:27 PM

This is another name that crops up regularly in my Frisian genealogy. It is also a male name. Any other information would be greatly appreciated.

#Oebele

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- elbowin +1

6/28/2019, 2:21 AM

I found the time to look up Oebele in Tammena, Namengebung in Ostfriesland, and he explains this name as a simplified form of Odbald. It is related to the names like Obbe or Obbo and can also be found under this Lemma in Seibicke, Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch.

- JemimahGertrude

6/28/2019, 4:45 PM

Thanks for the information. Another genealogy mystery solved!

- thegriffon

5/18/2019, 9:27 AM

I can only think a Frisian form of Abel, or a diminutive of Ebbe (an old abbreviation of Norse Asbjorn, with umlaut of A to E, that also appears in Old English).

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