Bañuelos
A Spanish surname meaning someone from or near a place with baths, pools, or marshy water.
The #1,939 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 16,567 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Bañuelos is a Spanish habitational surname, from places named Bañuelos or similar. The name is generally linked to Spanish baño, meaning "bath," ultimately from Latin balneum, and can point to a locality associated with baths, pools, or wet ground. The suffix -uelos may reflect a place-name form rather than a simple literal plural, so the surname is best understood as "from Bañuelos" rather than as a direct descriptive phrase.
History
The surname is found in Spain and later in Spanish-speaking parts of the Americas through migration in the colonial and modern periods. In the United States it is especially associated with Hispanic communities and is usually written without the tilde as Banuelos in English-language records.
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Fun fact
Because English records often omit diacritics, the same family line may appear as both Bañuelos and Banuelos in different documents.