Frequency: (562)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Probably an Americanized spelling of German Nübel, a habitational name from any of several places in Schleswig-Holstein named Nübel, or possibly of Niebel.
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