Cuevas surname meaning

Cuevas is Spanish for “caves,” the plural of cueva. As a surname it usually began as a topographic label for someone who lived by caves, or as a habitational name from one of the many Iberian places called Cuevas or Las Cuevas. Because caves are a common landscape feature, unrelated families could take the same name in different provinces. Cueva and De la Cueva preserve the singular and “from the cave” forms; Cuebas is a recognized variant. Place is the clear catalog type, and the cave-based meaning is consistently reported.