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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from Zubia in Granada province or either of two smaller places in Málaga province, so named from zubia ‘rich in water’ (from Arabic).
  • Basque : Pyrenean topographic name from Basque zubi ‘bridge’ + the definite article -a.

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