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traub Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a wine-grower, from Middle High German trube ‘bunch of grapes’, German Traube. In some cases the German name may originally have been habitational, for someone who lived at a house marked with the sign of a bunch of grapes, while the Jewish surname was often an ornamental adoption.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of traub Families in the US in 1920
Number of traub families
 44-85
 15-43
 1-14
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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