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korb Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German korb, German Korb ‘basket’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a basketmaker or for a peddler who carried his wares around in a basket. In Bavaria it also denoted the occupant of a laborer’s cottage built with wattle (i.e. interwoven twigs) and daub.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the korb family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of korb Families in the US in 1920
Number of korb families
 30-58
 11-29		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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