Been looking for the origins of the last name kubert.?

Question

everytime i look it up i get joe kubert. i don't wanna know about joe kubert i just wanna find out about my last name. it' so unsatisfying not knowing where you started. can someone help?

Answer 1

Your name might easily have been changed/altered from a different spelling at some time in the past, the fact that you cannot find it recorded tends to prove that point. The only way to be sure about where your ancestors came from is to research your family history, there is no other alternative, even if you had an exact definition for the origin of your last name, it would not prove your ancestors origins, only the possible origin of the name, because one name will often have several different origins.

Answer 2

Agreed - I've checked all the usual surname origin/meaning sites and they had zero entries for Kubert!  I did notice that there are several Kuberts in Denmark:

There are 34 Kuberts in Denmark which makes it the 949th most popular surname

The Kuberts live in 1 counties and 4 municipalities.

County:  Sjælland

Top municipalities:

Næstved 16

Slagelse 7

Odsherred 6

Holbæk 5

I'd recommend you try the message boards on the popular genealogy sites, and try to connect with distant relatives who may have more information about your surname.

Hope that helps, best of luck!

Answer 3

I do believe you are going to have to settle with Colbert.  Way back when when people had to pay for schooling and with census takers and with accents, they had to just write the name down as it was pronounced.

If you would start with Kubert in your family and work backwards you would most likely find that your name could have changed several times.

Kubert could be a varient of Culbert and Colbert.  With that in mine here goes:

culbert Name Meaning and History

English, northern Irish, and Scottish: variant of Colbert.

Colbert Name Meaning and History

French (Normandy) and English: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements kol- (akin to Old Norse kollir ‘helmet’) + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.

Answer 4

Confused.

I find tons of Kuberts in the US, some as early as 1880, who show (among other places) Bohemia for a place of birth. Also Prussia.  The simple question is not where your NAME comes from.. it matters where your ANCESTORS came from. And that is NOT always where "surname origins" sites claim that a name is from.  

IF the name was something else originally, the same concept applies. You need to locate your ancestor, his place of origin, then continue looking until it is clear what the original might have been, which is assuming that it was changed in the first place.

Since living persons are not normally online in records.. I have no way to determine who your grandfather/ great grandfather may have been.  That information is easily available to you, within your own family.  You know who your dad is (I assume); he knows his dad.  And the normal route is to use documents anyway.. such as birth or death certificates. At some point, you will reach the relative who was born pre 1930, and we can locate him and family in the census records, and work it back.

The goal is knowing YOUR ANCESTRY.  Forget surname databases.  Forget Joe (he might be a nice guy, but no help).  No sense in guessing, when anyone can use valid records to find their history.