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Navarro (surname)

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Navarro
Language(s)Spanish, Italian
Origin
Meaningsomeone from Navarre
Region of originSpain, Italy
Other names
Related namesNavarra, Navarrini.

Navarro is a Spanish surname of the Kingdom of Navarre. Navarro is a regional name denoting someone from Navarre[1] after the Kingdom of Pamplona took on the new naming in the high Middle Ages, while also keeping its original meaning of 'Basque-speaking person' in a broader sense, an ethnic surname[2]

Found in Bologna (Bononia) in Emilia where it is the capital of the province of Bologna in Italy.[citation needed]

People with the surname

References

  1. ^ http://www.ancestry.com/facts/navarro-name-meaning.ashx
  2. ^ Sainz Pezonaga, Jabier (May–August 2003). "Antroponimia Medieval Euskérica en la Navarra Tudelana". Fontes Linguae Vasconum: Studia et Documenta. 1 (93). Gobierno de Navarra; Institución Príncipe de Viana: 340. ISSN 0343-6993.