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Arms of the Kingdom of Galicia, Pedro de Teixeira, 17th century. The name of Galicia, an autonomous community of Spain and former kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, derives from the Latin toponym Callaecia, later Gallaecia, related to the name of an ancient tribe that resided north of the Douro river, the Gallaeci or Callaeci in Latin, or Kallaikói (καλλαικoι) in Greek.
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
Juárez – 384,929 – Regional variant of Suárez, meaning swineherd, from Latin suerius [3] Muñoz – 376,633 – Son of Muño [3] Ortega – 372,471; Salazar – 368,231 – From Burgos, meaning in Basque "Old hall" Rojas – 365,457 – From various places in Burgos or Lugo called Rojas, meaning "red" [3] Guerrero – 361,557 – Meaning ...
García is the most common surname in Spain (where 3.32% of the population is named García) [15] and also the second most common surname in Mexico. In the 1990 United States Census, Garcia was the 18th most reported surname, accounting for 0.25% of the population. [ 16 ]
The surname is most common in Portugal, Brazil, Galicia (although in Galicia it may be spelled 'Carvallo' or 'Carballo'), the former Portuguese African colonies (Angola, Mozambique, etc.), people from the State of Goa, Vasai, a town to the north of Mumbai in India, and also found in the Americas and Asia-Pacific, in some people of Portuguese ...
Pereira is a surname in the Portuguese and Galician languages, well known and quite common, mostly in Portugal, Galicia, Brazil, other regions of the former Portuguese Empire, among Galician descendants in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
The progenitor of Araújo's surname is probably Don Rodrigo Annes, who was the Lord of the Castle and the lands of Araújo, located in the south of the Kingdom of Galicia, in the current province of Ourense. That castle was on the border between the Kingdom of Galicia and the north of Portugal. Some point to the knight Vasco de Araujo, as the ...
The name is widespread in Galician-speaking regions of Spain (mostly in Galicia) and even more so in regions of the former Portuguese Empire in the Americas (being the most common surname in Brazil), in Africa and Asia, notably in India and Sri Lanka. It is also quite common in Spanish-speaking Latin America.