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cobb Name Meaning and History

  1. from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
  2. from a reduced form of Jacob.

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

Distribution of cobb Families in the US in 1920
Number of cobb families
 343-684
 115-342		 1-114
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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REV. JOHN COBB Jean_Moon 27
Andrew Lucy Cobb cherylwark1 1
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COBB Thomas James 1952-1999 t42Moore 0
COBB Martha S 1891 1925 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
C. Bliss Cobb Cynthia {Cobb} Monteith 8
Cobb Family Tree Rita Cobb 16
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