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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician and Portuguese : topographic name from the plural of viveiro ‘tree nursery’, ‘(fish) hatchery’, ‘breeding ground’ (Latin vivarium, a derivative of vivus ‘alive’) or a habitational name from a place named with this word.

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