Dube Family History
Dube Name Meaning
French (Dubé): of uncertain origin. It may be a
habitational name for someone from any of various places called Le
Bec, which are named either from Gaulish becco ‘high ground’ or
from Germanic bec ‘stream’ (see Beck).Breton:
nickname meaning ‘pigeon’.Eastern German, Sorbian, or other
Slavic: from Sorbian or Slavic dub ‘oak’, hence a nickname for
a strong or solid man, a topographic name for someone who lived by a
prominent oak or in an area where oak trees were abundant, or a
habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for
example Dubá or Doubé, both frequent Czech place names.North German: variant of Duwe.Indian (northern
states); pronounced as two syllables: Hindu (Brahman) name meaning
‘one who knows (or has studied) two Vedas’, from Sanskrit
dvivedi ‘one who knows two Vedas’, from dvi ‘two’ +
veda ‘Veda’, ‘knowledge’. This name is a cognate of Gujarati
Dave.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dube
Name Distribution of Dube Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dube families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dube census records
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Dube Family Origin
Dube Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dube Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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