Stubbins Family History
Stubbins Name Meaning
English (Nottinghamshire):: variant of Stebbins . from Middle English stubbing ‘land cleared of trees’ (Old English stubbing). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived on or by land recently cleared of trees or habitational for someone from any of several minor places so named such as Stubbing in Grinton (North Yorkshire) or Stubbing Wood in Hucknall Torkard (Nottinghamshire). nickname for a short squat person from Middle English stubbing ‘the stumpy one’ (Old English stubbing). See Stubbe .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022