Navarro (surname)

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Navarro
Origin
Language(s)Spanish
Meaningsomeone from Navarre
Region of originSpain
Other names
Variant form(s)Navarra

Navarro is a surname of Spanish, Italian, and Sephardi origin.[1] Navarro is a habitational surname denoting someone from Navarre (Basque: Nafarroa)[2] 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.[3] Ultimately the name is derived from the Basque word naba (meaning 'plain next to mountains').[4]

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. ^ https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=navarro
  2. ^ http://www.ancestry.com/facts/navarro-name-meaning.ashx
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195081374.001.0001. ISBN 9780195081374.