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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : variant of Maldonado, a nickname from Latin male dolatus ‘ill fashioned’ or male donatus ‘ill favored’. This was the name of a well-known medieval family from Galicia, which had numerous branches in Portugal and Spain.

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