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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Dobiš) : variant of Dobiaš (see Dobias).
  • Lithuanian : from Lithuanian Duoba or Polish Doba, a shortened form of a traditional Slavic personal name beginning with the element dob ‘courageous’, ‘noble’, for example Dobeslav (Polish Dobiesław).

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