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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a cooper or tubmaker, from Middle High German zuber ‘(two-handled) tub’, or a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a tub.
  • Swiss German : habitational name from a place so named, denoting an alpine stream.

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