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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese, Galician, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic) : variant of the topographic name Costa, denoting someone who lived on a slope or river bank or on the sea coast, with the addition of the preposition da ‘from (the)’, ‘of (the)’.

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