Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Czech : from a pet form of a traditional Slavic personal name beginning with the Old Slavic element dob ‘courageous’, ‘noble’, as for example Dobeslav (Polish Dobies{l-}aw), or from Czech Tobiáš (see Tobias).

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe