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The webb Surname

webb Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, early Middle English webbe, from Old English webba (a primary derivative of wefan ‘to weave’; compare Weaver 1). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster.
  2. Americanized form of various Ashkenazic Jewish cognates, including Weber and Weberman.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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webb Family Facts

Distribution of webb Families in the US in 1920
Number of webb families
 703-1404
 235-702		 1-234
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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