Dub as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Dub

What is the meaning of the name Dub ?

The baby name Dub is a boy name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced DUB.

Dub is Irish, Scottish Gaelic in Origin.

Dub is rooted in Old Irish dub, later Irish and Scottish Gaelic dubh, the adjective black or dark. An earlier Celtic form is usually reconstructed as Proto-Celtic *dubus, preserved in color epithets and personal-name elements. As a given name, the earliest secure spelling is medieval Gaelic Dub; final b represented a voiced fricative closer to v. Morphologically, it is a bare adjective used substantively, not a shortened English word.

Medieval Irish and Scottish sources use Dub independently and in compounds such as Dubgall, Dubhán, and Dubhdara. The best-known royal bearer is Dub mac Maíl Coluim, tenth-century king of Alba, remembered in later Scottish tradition as Duff. In English-speaking contexts Dub has also served as a nickname, especially for men with W initials. As a formal given name, it remains rare.

⚙ Dub is an uncommon pick. There are only 135 recorded uses of it in our data, from 41 countries.