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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician and Portuguese : religious byname from Portuguese vieria ‘scallop’ (Late Latin veneria, a derivative of the name of Venus; the goddess was often depicted riding on a scallop). The scallop was a symbol of the pilgrim who had been to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela.
  • Galician and Portuguese : habitational name from any of numerous minor places called Vieiria.

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