Zuber
A surname that most likely began as a nickname or occupational name connected with a tub or vat.
The #8,380 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 78,163 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The name is usually explained from a Germanic word for a tub, vat, or cask, especially Middle High German and related Dutch forms such as German "Zuber" and Dutch "kuip"-type vocabulary. In this sense, it may have referred to someone who made, sold, used, or lived near tubs and vats, or to someone identified by a tub as an emblematic object. Older surname writers also treated it as a descriptive nickname in the same general semantic field as "honeypot" or "bucket" names.
History
The surname is found in German-speaking areas and also appears in Dutch and related forms in older surname lists. It is not a very common surname internationally, but it has persisted in Central Europe and in emigrant communities abroad. Nineteenth-century surname dictionaries generally grouped it with object-based nicknames and occupational bynames.
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Fun fact
A 19th-century surname dictionary glossed Zuber simply as “Tub,” showing how directly many surnames were once linked to everyday objects.
From the historical record
“ZOUTMAN (ID.), Saltman. ZUBER ((S.), Tub. (v. Honey pot, Olievat, and Zurkanne.) ZUCKSCHWERDT ((B.), Draw sword, (v. Skene.) ZUIL, van der (ID.), of the Pillar or Column, {v. van Zuylen.) ZULAUF (©.), At course or current, {v. Anlauf and Umlautf.) ZUMBACH {<3'), At the brooh. Zumberge, At the hill. Zum- BOHM, At…”
— SurnamesNotable people named Zuber
- Steven Zuber (b. 1991)
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