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webb Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, early Middle English webbe, from Old English webba (a primary derivative of wefan ‘to weave’; compare Weaver 1). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster.
Americanized form of various Ashkenazic Jewish cognates, including Weber and Weberman.

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

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Distribution of webb Families in the US in 1920

Number of webb families

703-1404

235-702

1-234

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Thread	Author	Replies
Jesse Webb born in VA? died in Indiana about 1839	andrewcline07	71
Richardson Webb	SJNickerson	0
Isaac WEBB m. Hettie SPURGEON 1850 in IL	Nancy Camison	1
Edward Webb	vistarite	8
Searching for New England WEBB Descendants	sunkawakan	15
WEBB Brenda Joyce 1945 2007 US Army	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
Webbs on the Titanic	Cameron Bell	1
WEBB Barbara Jo 1932 2002 Holy Bible	t42PilotGrove_GraysonCoTX	0
WEBB Kenneth 1931 2003 cross	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
WEBB F Bernard and Margaret R	t42RoseHill	0

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