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tobe Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name from a place in Thuringia called Toba.
  2. Frisian and Dutch: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name (see Tabbert 2), or from a derivative of the Biblical name Tobias.
  3. Japanese: variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘door’ or ‘earth’ for the first character and ‘department’ or ‘side’ for the second. None are common in Japan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of tobe Families in the US in 1920
Number of tobe families
 9-16
 4-8		 1-3
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