Last name origins & meanings:
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Bobe.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from
eastern Yiddish bob ‘broad bean’, ‘bean(s)’, hence a metonymic
occupational name for a grower of beans or a nickname for a tall thin
man.
This name appears in the following lists:
Cowboys and Cowgirls,
Dancers,
Poets,
Rock Kings and Queens
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