 In 1863 Victor Guérin found the village located on cultivated slopes, with 200 inhabitants, while an Ottoman village list from about 1870 found 23 houses and a population of 88, though that population count included men, only.In 1883, the PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" (SWP) described Bayt Naqquba as a village built on a slope with a spring to the south.Around 1896 the population of "Bet Nakuba" was estimated to be about 135 persons.