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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English clubbe, clobbe ‘club’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a club maker or possibly as a nickname for someone who habitually carried a club. Reaney notes that ‘by the Assize of Arms, every adult man had to be provided with at least a knife and a staff or club.’

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