The Strub Family Name

There is no single Strub family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

What Strub means

Behind the Strub surname stands Straub, a German name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. Taken at its root, Strub points to “curly, bristly”.

Records show Strub as one of the forms Straub took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. 1,308 Americans were listed as Strub in the 2010 census. 1,968 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Strub name at birth.

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