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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (of Basque origin) : habitational name, in most cases probably from Aibar in Navarre, but in some cases perhaps a variant of Eibar, the name of a place in Gipuzkoa. The place names are from Basque ai ‘side’, ‘slope’ + ibar ‘flood plain’, ‘valley’.

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