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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Bañales) : from bañ(o) ‘bath’ (Latin balnea ‘baths’) + -al ‘place’ + the plural suffix -es, hence a topographic for someone who lived near public baths, or a habitational name from a place of this name in the province of Zaragoza.

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