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Updated March 6, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Galician : habitational name from any of the places in Portugal and Galicia named Teixeira (written Teijeira in Castilian Spanish), from a derivative of Portuguese and Galician teixo ‘yew tree’ (Latin taxus).

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