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jobe Name Meaning and History

  1. variant spelling of Job.
  2. nickname from Old French job, joppe ‘sorry wretch’, ‘fool’ (perhaps a transferred application of the name of the Biblical character).
  3. from Middle English jubbe, jobbe ‘vessel containing four gallons’, hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a cooper. It could also have been a nickname for a heavy drinker or for a tubby person.
  4. metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller (or nickname for a wearer) of the long woolen garment known in Middle English and Old French as a jube or jupe. This word ultimately derives from Arabic.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of jobe Families in the US in 1920
Number of jobe families
 60-117
 21-59		 1-20
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Threads: 508 - Messages: 830
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William Levi Jobe - Mississippi Sheila McGuire 4
Joel Jobe (Jobs) - 1860 Madison Co., IN Joan Langham 1
Sarah Jobe (b. ~1820) nikmajdan 1
Joan Jobe [1615-1671] (w/o) Henry Embrie [1615-1671] cedeez69 0
Edward Leonard Jobe fwells49 0
Sally Jobe - George Waters lillian waters bruce 17
Stephen Jobe-Tn dmooredunc42 0
George Jobe adopted Wells boy boxwoods 0
Elizabeth Rhoda Craven Lise_Doss 0
sally jobe kellywaters46 0
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