Family name origins & meanings
- Portuguese and Galician : from cordeiro ‘young lamb’ (Latin cordarius, a derivative of cordus ‘young’, ‘new’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, or a nickname meaning ‘lamb’.
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