Keeber Family History
Keeber Name Meaning
probably from Kibworth Beauchamp or Kibworth Harcourt (Leics). The place-name is from the Old English personal name Cybba + worð ‘enclosure smallholding’ and is recorded as Kybburth in a surname in a Wyggeston's Hospital document of 131 Through migration the surname appears in 14th-century Norfolk where it appears to have developed to Kiberd. Loss of the final consonant and a change in the main vowel may account for Keber in Suffolk and Essex and Keeber in Northants. The vowel change in which late Middle English /i/ was lowered and lengthened to /e:/ in an open syllable is found in other surnames e.g. Beeden (1) and Feakins .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016