Navarro
A Spanish surname meaning “from Navarre” or “a Navarrese person.”
The #315 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 3,093 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Navarro is a regional surname formed from the name of Navarre, the historic region in northern Spain. In Spanish, it originally meant a person from Navarre, and in older usage could also function as an ethnic label for someone identified with that place. The ultimate place-name root is traditionally linked to Latin and pre-Roman elements associated with the region, though the surname itself is simply the gentilic form.
History
This is a very common Spanish surname and is especially associated with families from Spain’s north and with Spanish-speaking communities worldwide. In historical records it often appears as a straightforward marker of origin rather than a uniquely hereditary family name at first, later becoming fixed as a surname. It is also found in the Americas through Spanish colonial migration.
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Fun fact
Because it began as a place-of-origin label, Navarro is one of those surnames that can be read almost like an old-fashioned passport stamp.
From the historical record
“que le remitiese reliquia de algún mártir. Dos años después, Eulogio, aprovechando el medio de un caballero navarro que volvia á su país, satisfacía cumplidamente á sus deseos, pues en aquel tiempo los muzárabes de Córdoba ])odian exportar en abundancia reliquias de mártires. A este envío acompañaba una preciosa…”
— Ensayo histórico etimológico filológico sobre los apellidos castellanosNotable people named Navarro
- Carla Suárez Navarro (b. 1988)
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