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bible Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the female personal name Bibel, a pet form of Bibb.
  2. Perhaps an altered spelling of South German Biebl, a variant of Biebel.

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bible Family Facts

Distribution of bible Families in the US in 1920
Number of bible families
 59-116
 20-58
 1-19
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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