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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese : from a misinterpretation (as d’Ornelas) of Dornelas, a habitational name from any of several places called Dornelas, from the plural diminutive of dorna ‘vat’, ‘tub’.

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