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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle High German trīben, German treiben, Yiddish traybn ‘to drive’. In some cases this name may have denoted someone who floated logs down a river.

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