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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Galician : topographic name for someone who lived by a well, pozo (Latin puteus ‘well’, ‘pit’), or habitational name from any of the many places named Pozo, in particular Pozo in Galicia or El Pozo in Asturies, named with pozo ‘well’ (from Latin puteus).

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