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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Asturian-Leonese, Spanish, and Catalan : habitational name from any of several minor places named Espina (notably in Asturies), from espina ‘thorn’, ‘prickle’, probably applied in the sense ‘thorn bush’.

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