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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Canary Islands) and Portuguese : from Béthencourt (see Bettencourt), the name (with many variants) of the first conqueror of the Canary Islands (1417), a knight of Norman-French origin. This name is also common and widespread in Latin America.

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