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Surnames of Galician language origin. Pages in category "Galician-language surnames" ... (name) Cardoso (surname) Carpinteiro;
The names, primarily of East Germanic origin, were used by the Suebi, Goths, Vandals and Burgundians. With the names, the Galicians inherited the Germanic onomastic system; a person used one name (sometimes a nickname or alias), with no surname, occasionally adding a patronymic. More than 1,000 such names have been preserved in local records.
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A few of these toponymic surnames can be considered nobiliary, as they first appear as the name of some Galician noble houses, [28] later expanding when these nobles began to serve as officials of the Spanish Empire, in Spain or elsewhere, as a way of maintaining them both far from Galicia and useful to the Empire: Andrade (from the house of ...
Feijóo, Feijoo or Feijó (among other variants) is a Spanish and Portuguese surname of Galician origin, derived from the word feixó, meaning "bean" (probably used as a nickname for a bald man). [1] People with surname or its variants include: Alfonso Feijoo, Spanish footballer; Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar
Cela is a Spanish-Galician surname. [1] [2] Notable people with the surname include: Alfonso Cela (1885–1932), Spanish bullfighter; Camilo José Cela (1916–2002), Spanish Nobel Prize winning writer; Camilo José Cela Conde (born 1946), Spanish writer and professor of philosophy, son of the former; Gabriel Hernán Cela (born 1974), Argentine ...
Anxo Quintana, politician, former leader of the Galician Nationalist Block (Bloque Nacionalista Galego), the main Galician Nationalist party; Adolfo Suárez González (his father was from La Coruña), Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the end of Francoist Spain; Xosé Manuel Beiras, politician, economist, writer and ...
It is a common in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and some other parts of South India that the spouse adopts her husband's first name instead of his family or surname name after marriage. [11] In Rajasthan, the community name and sometimes the gotra or clan name are used as surnames. Usage of community name as surname include: Charan, Jat, Meena, Rajput, etc.