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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South and Swiss German : nickname from Alemannic deubel ‘devil’ (see Teufel).
  • South and Swiss German : nickname, or an occupational name for a dove breeder or dealer, from a diminutive of Middle High German tūbe ‘dove’ (see Taube).

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