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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : nickname (or metonymic occupational name for a furrier) from suba ‘fur’, ‘long sheepskin coat’. This name is also found in Germany.
  • Hispanic (Philippines and Mexico) : unexplained; not found in present-day Spain.

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