Juba Family History

Americanized form of Polish Dziuba Dzióba or Dzioba. English (Leicestershire): variant of Jobber which has several origins. Firstly it is perhaps from a shortened form of the Middle English (Old French) personal name Jo(i)bert of Norman origin (compare Job and Jobin). The name may also be from Middle English jobber of uncertain meaning; it might be a derivative of job ‘piece of work’ (hence ‘pieceworker’) though the word is not recorded before the mid 16th century.

Other examples of the name might be derivatives of Middle English jobben ‘to peck or poke (something)’ (with a mattock perhaps) or of Middle English jubbe jobbe ‘large vessel for holding liquids’ hence ‘maker and seller of jubbs’. Finally perhaps a nickname from a shortened form of Middle English jobard ‘fool’. This surname is now rare in Britain.

Albanian: habitational name from Jubë (definite form Juba) a village in the Durrës County in western Albania. African (mainly Nigeria and Malawi): unexplained.

Japanese (Jūba): written 十場 ‘ten places’. It is not common in Japan.