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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician, Asturian-Leonese (De Peña), and Spanish (De Peña) : habitational name for someone from any of the numerous places in Galicia called (A) Pena, or in Asturies (La) Peña, from Galician pena, Asturian-Leonese and Spanish peña ‘rock’.

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