Struble
A surname of uncertain origin, probably a German or Dutch form that came into American use through immigration.
The #7,314 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 67,678 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The exact origin of Struble is not firmly established from the available evidence. It is likely an altered or Americanized form of a Germanic surname, possibly related to a place-name or to a word built on a German/Dutch root beginning with str- and involving a form like Strubel, Strubel, or similar. The ending -le can fit several southern German and Swiss diminutive patterns, but the historical record here is not clear enough to be specific.
History
The name is found among early American family names and is documented in 19th-century Boston lists, which suggests it had already been established in the United States by that time. Modern bearers are mostly in the U.S., especially in regions with German-American settlement. Because the surname is relatively uncommon and the older sources only mention it incidentally, its detailed lineage remains somewhat obscure.
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Fun fact
The surname appears in a 1861 Boston compilation of names still extant in the city, showing it was already part of New England’s surname landscape by the mid-19th century.
From the historical record
“452 NAMES STILL EXTANT IN BOSTON. LIN, Strohr (Stroh is "straw"), Strout, Struble, Stubbe, Stubbert, Stuke, Stupeni, Sturges and Sturgis (England has its Sturge), Sturtevant, Su- dergreen, sufle, sugrue 01' sughrue. sula, sularee, Sullivan, Sulzer, Sumerfield, Sdmfleth, Surette, Sutliffe, Sutter, Suydam, Swabasher…”
— Suffolk Surnames (3rd ed.)