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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a farm near Moers, Rhineland, named from Middle Low German dūve ‘dove’ or the personal name Dube + Middle German specke ‘log road’. (The humorous literal translation of the name, ‘pigeon bacon’, has nothing to do with its origin.)

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