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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : nickname for a man with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Spanish bermejo ‘red’, ‘ruddy’ (Late Latin vermiculus, from vermis ‘worm’, since a red dye was obtained from the bodies of worms).

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