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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : Castilianized form of Basque Zubia, or variant of Spanish Zubia. This surname is found mostly in Mexico.
  • Italian (Sicily) : possibly from subbia ‘chisel’, ‘awl’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such tools.

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