Stubbs Name Meaning
English:: variant of Stubbe with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. perhaps occasionally a topographic name from Middle English stub(be) ‘tree stump’ + hous ‘house’ used for someone who lived in a house by a tree stump.
Stubbe Name Meaning
English North German and Dutch: from Old English stubb Middle Low German Middle Dutch stubbe ‘tree stump’ or ‘tree trunk’ hence a nickname for a short stout man or alternatively perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived on newly cleared land or by a tree stump.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Stubbe, Tubbs, Tubb, Clubb, Tabb, Stuebs, Stobbs, Tibbs, Strubbe
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