Last name origins & meanings:
- Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic ka‛b
‘fame’, ‘glory’. This was the name of the ancestors of two different
tribes in Mecca, Ka‛b bin Rabiah and Ka‛b bin Kilāb.
- Muslim: possibly also from a personal name based on Arabic ka’ba
‘sorrow’.
- Japanese: ‘birch tree’. The name is not common in
Japan.
- Czech (Kába): from the personal name
Kába, a derivative of the Biblical name Gabriel.
- Hungarian: from kaba ‘falcon’, from Serbian and
Croatian koba, kobac ‘sparrowhawk’, hence a nickname for
someone thought to resemble a falcon, or a metonymic occupational name
for a falconer. Alternatively, it may be a nickname for a slow-witted
person, from kába ‘slow’, ‘lethargic’. It could also be a
habitational name from places so called in Szabolcs county in northern
Hungary and in former K{u’’}lső Szolnok county, now in Romania.
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