What's in a Prague street name

K dubinám was built in 1935.

A ‘dubina’ is a forest dominated by oak trees, or ‘duby’. You could also call it an ‘oak grove’. Due to its surrounding vegetation, the area once here was once known as Na dubině.

Unrelatedly, a long way to the west, a group of Czechs created a settlement called Dubina in Texas in 1856 – it was the state’s first Czech settlement.

It’s down to 44 inhabitants now, but here’s a nice article about it: https://texashighways.com/travel-news/my-favorite-texas-fayette-county-prairie-saint-rocha-dubina/.

This is pretty great too:

A synonym for ‘dubina’ is ‘doubrava’, which has given its name to a river and several settlements in Czechia, and is also the source of the female given name Doubravka (Doubravka of Bohemia, who died in 977, is pictured).