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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Bobe.
  2. 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