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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly south coast) : patronymic from a short form of Hibbard.
  • English (chiefly south coast) : metronymic from the medieval female personal name Ibb, a reduced form of Isabel(le) (see Isbell).

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