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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Galician : habitational name from any of the numerous places named Freitas, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony ground, from Portuguese (pedras) freitas ‘broken stones’, Late Latin (petrae) fractae. Compare Fragoso.

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