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Carneiro

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese : from carneiro ‘ram’ (from an unattested Latin word carnāriu, a derivative of caro ‘flesh’), applied as a nickname for a good-natured person or someone’s fiancé.

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