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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan and Spanish : habitational name from Requena in Valencia or Requena de Campos in Palencia, apparently so called from a short form of the various Visigothic compound personal names with the first element rīc ‘power(ful)’, with the addition of the locative suffix -ena.

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