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Czech surnames

Kuba: what the name means

Kuba: from Kuba, a pet form of the first name Jakub (Jacob).

In January 2017, 3,501 people in Czechia were named Kuba or Kubová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Kuba mean?

Kuba: from Kuba, a pet form of the first name Jakub (Jacob).

How many people are called Kuba in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,501 people in Czechia were named Kuba or Kubová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Kuba most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (240), Brno (224), Příbram (125).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Kuba: en.wikipedia.org
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)