The tabor Surname
tabor Name Meaning and History
- English: metonymic occupational name for a drummer, from Middle English, Old French tabo(u)r ‘drum’.
- Hungarian: from the old secular personal name Tábor.
- Czech and Slovak (Tábor) and Jewish (from Bohemia): habitational name from the city of Tábor in southern Bohemia. This was a center of the Hussite movement; in Czech it came to denote a member of the radical wing of the Hussite movement.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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