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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English, North German, and Dutch : from Old English stub(b), Middle Low German, Middle Dutch stubbe ‘tree stump’ or ‘tree trunk’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on newly cleared land, or a nickname for a short, stout man.

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