Navarro (surname)

Navarro is a Spanish, Italian, and French surname.[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. The person who recorded this invented its ethnic origin. Navarro means a person from Navarra, an established kingdom in medieval Spain. Vascuence is the proper Spanish name of the Basque language.[3] Ultimately the name is derived from the Basque word naba (meaning 'plain next to mountains').[4]

Navarro
Origin
Language(s)Espańol o castellano language
Meaningsomeone from Navarre
Region of originSpain, Italy, France
Other names
Variant form(s)Navarra

Notable people with the surname

See also

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. Gobierno de Navarra; Institución Príncipe de Viana. p. 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.


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