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Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Bright; famous
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Bob
Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Bobe.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from eastern Yiddish bob ‘broad bean’, ‘bean(s)’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower of beans or a nickname for a tall thin man.