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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Catalan : habitational name from any of various places called Alcocer, for example in the provinces of Guadalajara and Alacant, from Arabic al ‘the’ + qụssayr ‘small palace’, a diminutive of qạsr ‘citadel’ (see Alcazar).

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