Korba Family History
Korba Name Meaning
Polish Ukrainian and Rusyn: from korba ‘crank’ perhaps a nickname or an occupational name. Slovak and Czech: from korba ‘upper part of sleigh or of light carriage made of twigs or small boards’ perhaps applied as metonymic occupational name. In some cases possibly also an American shortened (or Greek feminine) form of Greek Korbas: nickname for a person with black hair from Albanian korb ‘crow’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022