Jobe Family History
Jobe Name Meaning
variant spelling of Job.nickname from Old
French job, joppe ‘sorry wretch’, ‘fool’ (perhaps a
transferred application of the name of the Biblical character).from Middle English jubbe, jobbe ‘vessel containing
four gallons’, hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a
cooper. It could also have been a nickname for a heavy drinker or for
a tubby person.metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller
(or nickname for a wearer) of the long woolen garment known in Middle
English and Old French as a jube or jupe. This word
ultimately derives from Arabic.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Jobe Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Jobe families
 60 - 117  21 - 59 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Jobe families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Jobe Family Origin
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