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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Taube 1.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a deaf person, from Middle High German toup, German taub ‘deaf’. The adjective also had the sense ‘dull’, ‘stupid’, and this may lie behind some examples of the German name.

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