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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Cáceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix ‘womb’, ‘river bed’.

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