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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Ruben, Rubenau, Rüben or Rübenau.
  • German : occupational name for a beet farmer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German ruobe ‘beet’.

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