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The taube Surname

taube Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Taube ‘pigeon’, ‘dove’ (Middle High German tube). The German name is either a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or pigeons or a nickname for a mild and gentle person; the Jewish surname is ornamental.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Toybe (from Yiddish toyb ‘dove’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of taube Families in the US in 1920
Number of taube families
 19-36
 7-18
 1-6
 0
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