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Navarro (surname)

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

Navarro is a Spanish and French surname.[1] Navarro is a habitational surname denoting someone from Navarre (Basque: Nafarroa)[2][better source needed] 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]

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References

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  1. ^ "Surname Database: Navarro Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database.
  2. ^ "Navarro Name Meaning & Navarro Family History at Ancestry.com®". www.ancestry.com.
  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.