Carmona
A Spanish surname originally taken from the place name Carmona in Andalusia.
The #1,310 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 11,532 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Carmona is a habitational surname, meaning it was first used to identify someone from the town of Carmona in Seville province, Spain. The place-name is very old and is commonly traced back to pre-Roman or Roman-era roots; older scholarship often treats its deeper origin as uncertain. In practice, the surname simply meant “person from Carmona.”
History
The surname spread from Spain through later migration to the Americas and other Spanish-speaking regions. It is especially common in Hispanic communities and is well established in Mexico, the southwestern United States, and much of Latin America. Because it is also a place-name, independent lines of Carmona families may not be related to one another.
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Fun fact
Carmona is also the name of a historic city near Seville, famous for its long Roman and Moorish past.
From the historical record
“N. del C. Cármen Luisa Sanchez Margarita Carmona José O. Moya H. Erasmo Moya H. Pedro Espinosa Cárlos Salas”
— Diccionario de los apellidos