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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.
Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname. Since 1999, the order of the surnames in a family in Spain is decided when registering the first child, but the traditional order is nearly universally chosen (99.53% of the time). [2] [b]
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 ...
Galician-language surnames (71 P) O. ... Lavilla (name) Leon (surname) List of common Spanish surnames; ... Surnames of Spanish origin.
Herrera – 451,226 – From the Latin word ferrāria, meaning either "Iron Mine" or "Iron Works". Medina – 431,518 – From the Arabic word madina, meaning city. Vargas – 427,854 – From Spanish and Portuguese, from various places called Vargas, meaning variously "thatched hut", "steep slope", or "fenced pastureland which becomes ...
Santiago is both a Spanish and Portuguese [2] surname. The surname Santiago was first found in Galicia, Spain. There are other forms that are shortened versions of Santiago: Sant, Santo, Sancto, Sancti, Sanct, Sanctis Santi. Also, these spellings apply to all the righteous men of the Calendar of the days of the Patron Saints. [3]
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