Cuesta Family History

Cuesta Name Meaning

Spanish: from cuesta ‘slope’, ‘bank’ (Latin costa ‘rib’, ‘side’, ‘flank’, also used in a transferred topographical sense), hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or riverbank, less often on the coast, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example La Cuesta, in the provinces of Segovia and Soria.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Name Distribution of Cuesta Families

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England & Wales

Scotland

Number of Cuesta families

3 - 3

2 - 2

from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data

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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Cuesta Family Origin

Spain (29)

Cuba (7)

China (2)

Mexico (1)

Germany (1)

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Cuesta Family Occupations

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