Last name origins & meanings:
- French (Dubé): of uncertain origin. It may be a
habitational name for someone from any of various places called Le
Bec, which are named either from Gaulish becco ‘high ground’ or
from Germanic bec ‘stream’ (see Beck).
- Breton: nickname meaning ‘pigeon’.
- Eastern German, Sorbian, or other
Slavic: from Sorbian or Slavic dub ‘oak’, hence a nickname for
a strong or solid man, a topographic name for someone who lived by a
prominent oak or in an area where oak trees were abundant, or a
habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for
example Dubá or Doubé, both frequent Czech place names.
- North German: variant of Duwe.
- Indian (northern
states); pronounced as two syllables: Hindu (Brahman) name meaning
‘one who knows (or has studied) two Vedas’, from Sanskrit
dvivedī ‘one who knows two Vedas’, from dvi ‘two’ +
veda ‘Veda’, ‘knowledge’. This name is a cognate of Gujarati
Dave.
- A Poitevin family of this name had settled in Île d’Orléans
before 1670.
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