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lobb Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Loba, apparently a topographical term meaning perhaps ‘lump’, ‘hill’, the village being situated at the bottom of a hill. There is also a place of the same name in Oxfordshire (recorded in 1208 as Lobbe), but the historical and contemporary distribution of the surname (which is still largely restricted to Devon), makes it unlikely that it ever derived from this place, or from Middle English, Old English lobbe ‘spider’.

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lobb Family Facts

Distribution of lobb Families in the US in 1920
Number of lobb families
 49-96
 17-48
 1-16
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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