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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘sunken rice paddy’; variously written, most usually with characters used phonetically; found throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands.
  • Czech : from a derivative of Kuba, a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob).

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