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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Spanish (Carías) : unexplained; probably a topographic name from the plural of a shortened form of Portuguese alcaria (Spanish alquería) ‘little village’ or ‘shed’ or denoting a kind of violet, of Arabic origin.

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