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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Middle English stebbing, stubbing ‘clearing’ (from an unattested Old English stybbing, a derivative of stubb ‘tree stump’).
  • English : habitational name from Stebbing in Essex, which is named in Old English either as ‘the family or followers (Old English -ingas) of a man called Stybba’, an unattested Old English personal name, or ‘the dwellers among the tree stumps (Old English stybb)’.
  • English : Edward Stebbins was one of the founders of Hartford, CT (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.

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