The cuesta Surname
cuesta Name Meaning and History
Spanish: from cuesta ‘slope’, ‘bank’ (Latin costa
‘rib’, ‘side’, ‘flank’, also used in a transferred topographical
sense), hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or
riverbank, less often on the coast, or a habitational name from a
place named with this word, as for example La Cuesta, in the provinces
of Segovia and Soria.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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