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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Leicestershire) : possibly a variant spelling of Jubber, an occupational name for a maker either of woolen garments, from an agent derivative of Middle English jube, or of large vessels, from Middle English jobbe. Alternatively, it may derive from the personal name Joubert.
  • Japanese (Jūba) : ‘ten places’. The name is not common in Japan.

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