Gaebel Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Gaebel is an established spelling of the German surname Gabel. The family name meaning is “A fork-making trade, a landscape fork, or another name route”, the same as for Gabel.

• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• Gaebel adds “e” to Gabel, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.
• According to the 2010 US Census, the Gaebel surname had 460 bearers. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.

Heraldry and the Gaebel name

Arms linked to Gabel and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Gaebel surname pack.