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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Taube ‘pigeon’, ‘dove’ (Middle High German tūbe). The German name is either a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or pigeons or a nickname for a mild and gentle person; the Jewish surname is ornamental.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Toybe (from Yiddish toyb ‘dove’).

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