Last name: CUPIT

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Last name frequency

CUPIT : This last name is indexed 8,280 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

CUPIT : English (North Midlands): possibly a habitational name from the placename Cowbit in Lincolnshire meaning ‘river-bend frequented by cows’ named with Old English cū ‘cow’ + byht ‘bend curve’ referring to a bend in the River Welland. The surname may also be a variant of Cubit. Whatever its origin it seems to have been understood as a placename including Middle English pit ‘pit’. It has also sometimes been influenced since the Renaissance by the name of the Roman god of love Cupid.

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