Given name & surname
Kubo
“ăqṓḇ), meaning “he will/shall heel”
Kubo is a masculine given name. It is used in Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kubo is a diminutive of Jakub. Jakub goes back to Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ), meaning “he will/shall heel.”
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Where it comes from
Kubo is a diminutive of Jakub. Jakub comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Slovak usage, Kubo is a diminutive of Jakub.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kubo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,165 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kubo’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Kubo is a diminutive of Jakub. In Slovak usage, Kubo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jim. In Japanese usage, Kubo as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 久保.
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Around the world
Kubo has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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