The stebbins Surname
stebbins Name Meaning and History
- topographic name from Middle English stebbing, stubbing ‘clearing’ (from an unattested Old English stybbing, a derivative of stubb ‘tree stump’).
- habitational name from Stebbing in Essex, which is named in Old English either as ‘the family or followers (Old English -ingas) of a man called Stybba’, an unattested Old English personal name, or ‘the dwellers among the tree stumps (Old English stybb)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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