Zuber Family History
Zuber Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a cooper or tubmaker, from Middle High German zuber ‘(two-handled) tub’; or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a tub.
Swiss German: habitational name from a place so named, denoting an alpine stream, or a topographic name from the Alemannic field name Zube, denoting a running well fed by an alpine stream.
Slovak (also Zúber): nickname from zuber ‘European bison’.
Czech: variant of Zubr, a cognate of 3 above; or a surname of German origin (see 1 above).
Polish: unexplained.
Serbian and Croatian: presumably a derivative of zub ‘tooth’.
Slovenian (Žuber): unexplained.
Muslim (mainly Ethiopia): variant of Zubair .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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