Cordova surname meaning

Cordova is a Spanish habitational surname, a common spelling variant of Córdova / Córdoba, for someone from the city of Córdoba in Andalusia. De Cordova simply adds the preposition “from.” Cordoba and Córdoba are the same place-name in other orthographies, and both city and province associations appear in family histories. As with other Iberian city surnames, the label marks geographic origin rather than an occupation or given name. Separate Cordova families may descend from different migrants who left the same famous city centuries apart. Place is high confidence for the catalog.