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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Oxfordshire and West Midlands) : unexplained.
  • Swiss German (Trüby) : of uncertain origin; it may have originated as a nickname, from Middle High German trüebe ‘dark’, ‘sad’, ‘troubled’.

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