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Czech surnames

Kubín: what the name means

Kubín: from the first name Jakub (Jacob), via its pet form Kuba.

In January 2017, 3,749 people in Czechia were named Kubín or Kubínová (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 Kubin.

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 Kubín mean?

Kubín: from the first name Jakub (Jacob), via its pet form Kuba.

How many people are called Kubín in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,749 people in Czechia were named Kubín or Kubínová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Kubín most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (438), Mladá Boleslav (200), Boskovice (158).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Kubín: 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)