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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Portuguese : metonymic occupational name for an armorer or a swordsman, from espada ‘sword’ (Latin spata, from Greek spathē, originally denoting a broad, two-edged sword without a point). In some cases the surname may be a Catalan cognate, from Old Catalan espada (now espasa).

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