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The cobb Surname

cobb Name Meaning and History

  1. from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
  2. from a reduced form of Jacob.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cobb Families in the US in 1920
Number of cobb families
 343-684
 115-342		 1-114
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