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Dube

in Rhode Island

There are 223 people with the last name "Dube" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Dube 504
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  1. is 500th most common Benson
  2. is 501st most common Esposito
  3. is 502nd most common Lawton
  4. is 503rd most common Brito
  5. is 504th most common Dube
  6. is 505th most common Pinto
  7. is 506th most common Conway
  8. is 507th most common Dennis
  9. is 508th most common Dionne

Similar Names and Nicknames

Dubey, Dubeau, Dupee, Dubel, Duberry, Dubell, Dobey, Duberstein, Duve, Dubeck

Most Common First Names for Dube

Robert, Joseph, Paul, Richard, Michael, Donna, James, Jean, Margaret, Raymond

Meaning & History

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 dvivedī ‘one who knows two Vedas’, from dvi ‘two’ + veda ‘Veda’, ‘knowledge’. This name is a cognate of Gujarati Dave.

FOREBEARS A Poitevin family of this name had settled in Île d’Orléans before 1670.

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