Boy name origins & meanings
- Latin : Honorable one; well-born
How Popular Is The Name Nobel
Family name origins & meanings
- Swedish : shortened form of Nobelius, a Latinized habitational name from a place called Nöbbelöv. This is one of the rare genuine habitational names in Swedish, as distinct from ornamental coinages, which sometimes look like place names.
- German (also Nöbel) : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with nōt ‘distress’, ‘force’.
- German (also Nöbel) : in some cases a habitational name from a place so named near Danzig (Polish Gdańsk) and (Nöbel) from Nöbeln in Saxony.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German nobel ‘noble’.