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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Portuguese : nickname from Spanish granado ‘mature’, ‘experienced’, ‘distinguished’.
  • Spanish and Portuguese : topographic name or metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pomegranates, from granado ‘pomegranate tree’, Latin (pomum) granatum (see Garnett 1).

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