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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Portuguese, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic) (from Basque) : regional name from Navarre (Basque Nafarroa), a region now divided between Spain and France, but in the Middle Ages an independent Basque kingdom. The place name derives from Basque naba ‘plain next to mountains’.

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