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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovenian (Bobič) and Croatian (Bobić) : probably a nickname from a diminutive of bob ‘horse bean’, formed with the diminutive suffix -ič. Compare Bobek, Bobik.
  • Croatian and Serbian (Bobić) : patronymic from Bobo or Boba, old pet forms of the personal names Bogdan, Slobodan.

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