Family name origins & meanings
- Asturian-Leonese (Avilés) : habitational name from Avilés, a place in Asturies on the coast west of Xixón (Gijón in Spanish). The place name is derived either from a pre-Roman cognomen, Abilus, or from the Latin name Abilius, from the place name formed with (Villa) Abilius + the suffix -ensis.
- Spanish : possibly also habitational name for someone from Ávila (see Avila).