Family name origins & meanings
- Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : topographic name from bobek ‘bayberry’.
- Czech and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a small rotund person, from bobek ‘goat droppings’.
- Slovenian and Croatian (northwestern Croatia) : nickname from a diminutive of bob ‘horse bean’, formed with the diminutive suffix -ek. Compare Bobik and Bobich.
- German : habitational name from a place in Schleswig-Holstein named Bobek.
- Swedish : variant spelling of Bobeck.