Cuba Family History

Portuguese, Asturian-Leonese, Galician, and Spanish: habitational name from any of the places in Portugal (in the provinces of Alentejo and Beira Baixa) or Spain (in Aragon, Asturias, and Galicia) named Cuba, from cuba ‘barrel’ (from Latin cupa).

Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian, and Jewish Kuba. Czech and Slovak (Čuba): nickname (or metonymic occupational name for a furrier) from archaic čuba (a byform of šuba) ‘wolfskin’ (compare Suba).

As a Czech name, it may also be an unflattering nickname from čuba ‘bitch (both a female dog and a whore)’ and as a Slovak name, a nickname or a topographic name from čuba ‘top of a tree or hill’.