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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : metonymic occupational name for a drummer or for a drum maker, from dob ‘drum’.
  • Hungarian : from a pet form of any of various Slavic personal names such as Dobeslav and Doběstoj, or Czech Tobiáš or Hungarian Tóbiás (see Tobias).
  • Czech (Doboš) : variant of Dobeš (see Dobesh).
  • Americanized spelling of Polish Dobosz.

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