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Czech surnames

Kubeš: what the name means

Kubeš: from the first name Jakub (Jacob).

In January 2017, 3,948 people in Czechia were named Kubeš or Kubešová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

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

In America the name was often written without the Czech accents, so family papers may say Kubes.

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 Kubeš mean?

Kubeš: from the first name Jakub (Jacob).

How many people are called Kubeš in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,948 people in Czechia were named Kubeš or Kubešová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Kubeš most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (444), České Budějovice (370), Brno (121).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Kubeš: dvojka.rozhlas.cz
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)