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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Galician : habitational name from any of the numerous places in Portugal named Sequeira, or (in Galicia) a topographic name from sequeira ‘arid land’, from Late Latin siccaria, a derivative of siccus ‘dry’.

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