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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Bobík), Slovak, Polish, and Slovenian (from historically Slovenian-speaking Styria) : from a diminutive of Slavic bob ‘bean’ (Slovenian: ‘horse-bean’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower of beans or a nickname for someone tall and thin. Compare Bobek and Bobich.

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