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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : topographic or habitational name from a place named with ahumar ‘to smoke’, possibly denoting a place where ham and other meats were smoked or alternatively a place that had been cleared for settlement by burning. Places named with this word are found in Jaén and Cádiz.

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