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cubit Name Meaning and History

English: from Middle English cubit ‘forearm’ (from Latin cubitum), presumably applied as a nickname for someone with strong or otherwise remarkable forearms; in its extended sense, as a unit of length, it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a builder.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cubit Families in the US in 1920
Number of cubit families
 5-8
 2-4
 1
 0
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geneological study v. englehart 15
Charles Albert Cubitt, b. 1881 MI, fa. William Dayna Jacobs 8
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CUBIT(T) burials North + South Great Yarmouth 1837-1902. LORRAINE DAVIDSON 2
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