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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Thöby : from a reduced pet form of the personal name Matthäus (see Matthew).
  • Americanized form of German Thöby : from a pet form of any of the Germanic personal names formed of Diet ‘people’ + bald ‘bold’, bert ‘shining’, or brand ‘sword’.

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