Verba Family History
Verba Name Meaning
Ukrainian Jewish (from Ukraine) and Rusyn (from Slovakia): from Ukrainian verba ‘willow’ applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a willow tree. As a Jewish name it is mainly artificial (compare 2 below). Jewish (from Ukraine): habitational name from Verba now in Ukraine. Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Vrba a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022