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The kibbe Surname

kibbe Name Meaning and History

  1. English: according to Reaney this is a nickname from an unattested Old English word cybbe meaning ‘clumsy’ or ‘thickset’. Reaney’s speculation is apparently based on taking the Middle English word kibble ‘cudgel’ as a diminutive of an unattested Old English word. Corresponding personal names have been postulated for the place names Kibworth (‘enclosure of a man called Cybba’) and Kibblesworth (‘enclosure of a man called Cybbel’); so, in theory, the surname could be a reflex of these Old English personal names.
  2. North German: nickname for a cantankerous person, from Middle Low German, Middle High German kiven ‘to quarrel’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kibbe Families in the US in 1920
Number of kibbe families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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