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dube Name Meaning and History

  1. French (Dubé): of uncertain origin. It may be a habitational name for someone from any of various places called Le Bec, which are named either from Gaulish becco ‘high ground’ or from Germanic bec ‘stream’ (see Beck).
  2. Breton: nickname meaning ‘pigeon’.
  3. Eastern German, Sorbian, or other Slavic: from Sorbian or Slavic dub ‘oak’, hence a nickname for a strong or solid man, a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent oak or in an area where oak trees were abundant, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for example Dubá or Doubé, both frequent Czech place names.
  4. North German: variant of Duwe.
  5. Indian (northern states); pronounced as two syllables: Hindu (Brahman) name meaning ‘one who knows (or has studied) two Vedas’, from Sanskrit dvivedi ‘one who knows two Vedas’, from dvi ‘two’ + veda ‘Veda’, ‘knowledge’. This name is a cognate of Gujarati Dave.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dube Families in the US in 1920
Number of dube families
 137-271
 46-136		 1-45
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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