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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : patronymic from a reduced form of Polish Jakub (see Jacob).
  • Hungarian : from a Turkish loanword kobak ‘head’, ‘forehead’ (from Cumanian and Pechenegg quabaq or Ottoman Turkish kabak ‘pumpkin’), hence a nickname for an unsophisticated person or someone with a bald or big head.

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