Dutch and North German: variant of Appel ‘apple’.North German and Dutch: from a pet form of Albrecht.Dutch (van Apel): habitational name from a place called
Ap(p)el, near Groningen.Jewish (Ashkenazic): Yiddish-German
variant of Apfel. See also Appel.Czech: from
the German personal name (see 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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