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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of a Slavic equivalent of Jacob.
  • German : habitational name from a lost place near Ahrweiler called Hubach.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of Czech Hubač, a nickname for a loud mouth, from huba ‘mouth’, ‘gob’.

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