Kubena
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Czech (Kubena); 1. from a derivative of the personal name Kuba, a pet form of Jakub (see Jacob)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kubena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 21K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 605K
- USUnited States1 in 775K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
499 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Czech (Kubena); 1. from a derivative of the personal name Kuba, a pet form of Jakub (see Jacob). 2. perhaps also a nickname from Old Czech kubena ‘concubine’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kubena is found
(measured from records)Kubena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 499 | 1 in 21K | 499 | — | — |
| US United States | 429 | 1 in 775K | 474 | Kubena | 142 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Kubena | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Kubena | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Kubena | 25 |
| AT Austria | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Kubena | 5 |
| IE Ireland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 556K | — | Kubena | 2 |
| SK Slovakia | 9 | 1 in 605K | 9 | — | — |
499 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kubena is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, upe Krievijā, Arhangeļskas un Vologdas apgabalā, ietek Kubenas ezerā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karl Kubenab. 1849bassoonist, violinist and music teacher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kubena come from?
- Czech (Kubena); 1. from a derivative of the personal name Kuba, a pet form of Jakub (see Jacob). 2. perhaps also a nickname from Old Czech kubena ‘concubine’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kubena mean?
- Recorded meaning: Czech (Kubena); 1. from a derivative of the personal name Kuba, a pet form of Jakub (see Jacob).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kubena?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 499 people named Kubena, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Tanzania, United Kingdom and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kubena most common?
- Kubena is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kubena?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 499 people named Kubena, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kubena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kubenaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kubena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.