Oppel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Oppel.

Proper noun

Oppel (plural Oppels)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Oppel is the 39717^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 553 individuals. Oppel is most common among White (96.2%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oppel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

German

Distribution of Oppels in Germany (2005)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔpl̩]
• Hyphenation: Op‧pel

Proper noun

Oppel m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Oppels or (with an article) Oppel, feminine genitive Oppel, plural Oppels or Oppel)

1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Oppel [masculine // feminine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein, eine	der, die	Oppel	die	Oppels, Oppel, Öppeler2
genitive	eines, einer	des, der	Oppels, Oppel1	der	Oppels, Oppel, Öppeler2
dative	einem, einer	dem, der	Oppel	den	Oppels, Oppeln, Öppelern2
accusative	einen, eine	den, die	Oppel	die	Oppels, Oppel, Öppeler2

¹With an article.
²Informal.

Related terms

• Oppelmayer, Opel, Opper, Oppermann, Oppersdorff, Oppen, Oppenberg, Oppenhoff, Oppenheim
• Opela, Opitz, Offermann, Ostermann, Obermann, Ortmann