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Post your most Uncommon Surnames found in your family tree

Beowulf

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Spain
the most strange and uncommon surnames i have in my family tree are: Boil,Rocsalt,Esteve,Delhome,Niget,Visiedo,Melero,Rastell(the main english surname in my british side),Rognvaldsson,Gamito(Portuguese)
 

Beowulf

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Spain
Gualberto and Aragon lol
that's what i found for Gualberto, but is in Spanish:

Gualberto es un nombre predominantemente masculino de origen Germánico.

El nombre Gualberto tiene sus orígenes en las raíces germánicas «waldan», cuyo significado es “fuerza, potencia”, y «berth», que significa “ilustre, destacado”, por lo que su interpretación etimológica sería comprendida como “brillante por su poder” o “el que se destaca por su fuerza”.
 

Turkic Warrior

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that's what i found for Gualberto, but is in Spanish:

Gualberto es un nombre predominantemente masculino de origen Germánico.

El nombre Gualberto tiene sus orígenes en las raíces germánicas «waldan», cuyo significado es “fuerza, potencia”, y «berth», que significa “ilustre, destacado”, por lo que su interpretación etimológica sería comprendida como “brillante por su poder” o “el que se destaca por su fuerza”.
yes i read that before about my surname
 
it exists in both Italy and Spain but it's uncommon, in the record of the individual who had the surname had a portuguese, spanish or Italian name?
Comes from my GGrandmother, who claims that her mother was full descendant of Slaves and her father was blond and blue eyed and she said that he or he parents were not born in Brazil, that surname comes from he, i thought that he was a Portuguese looking by some informations of some relatives but its unsure.
I Found some registers in google saying that comes from Zaragoza from some Spanish settlers, also the city which was said in register is the same of where my family is from but i just have that, she dont have much documents but her sisters have, so next time when i visit her i hope find more informations :/
 

Beowulf

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Country
Spain
Comes from my GGrandmother, who claims that her mother was full descendant of Slaves and her father was blond and blue eyed and she said that he or he parents were not born in Brazil, that surname comes from he, i thought that he was a Portuguese looking by some informations of some relatives but its unsure.
I Found some registers in google saying that comes from Zaragoza from some Spanish settlers, also the city which was said in register is the same of where my family is from but i just have that, she dont have much documents but her sisters have, so next time when i visit her i hope find more informations :/
i have the same issue with my east european ancestry, my great grandfather that i posted here and was classified as Dinarid he had a very possible East european surname but is also common in spain according to grandma he was really red haired( like grandma but lighter) and his father too he was red haired and green eyed not a very tall guy but according to grandma would be something like textbook Norid, the surname is Matas that even my mother carry it it's common in spain but is also common in Czech republic or croatia etc... grandma later have a very close coincidences with poles or other eastern europeans.
 
it exists in both Italy and Spain but it's uncommon, in the record of the individual who had the surname had a portuguese, spanish or Italian name?
I found that:
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Lemme translate:
The uzeda family has their origin in Spain

We have doubt if we are Uzeda or Uceda (in spain has the same sound). Has a possibility that we descends from Spaniards from Vila de Uzeda, Spain. The fact is we know that we are descendants from a Uzeda family that get in ------------ in Bahia
 

Beowulf

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Spain
I found that:
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Lemme translate:
The uzeda family has their origin in Spain

We have doubt if we are Uzeda or Uceda (in spain has the same sound). Has a possibility that we descends from Spaniards from Vila de Uzeda, Spain. The fact is we know that we are descendants from a Uzeda family that get in ------------ in Bahia
Villa de Uceda is in Extremadura that's what i found
 
i have the same issue with my east european ancestry, my great grandfather that i posted here and was classified as Dinarid he had a very possible East european surname but is also common in spain according to grandma he was really red haired( like grandma but lighter) and his father too he was red haired and green eyed not a very tall guy but according to grandma would be something like textbook Norid, the surname is Matas that even my mother carry it it's common in spain but is also common in Czech republic or croatia etc... grandma later have a very close coincidences with poles or other eastern europeans.
Very interesting, i know in Portugal have a solid Ukraine-Slavic population, maybe in Spain occoured something similar?
Also maybe its a surname from Roman/Byzantine that both Iberians and Slavic accepted during the process of Greco-Romanization/Latinization of europe? Idk
 
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