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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place name in Thuringia, which is of Slavic origin.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : variant of Bobek 1.
  • Respelling of Czech, Slovenian, or Croatian Bobek.
  • Respelling of Swedish Bobäck, an ornamental name composed of the elements bo ‘farm’ + bäck ‘stream’.

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