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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : topographic name for someone who lived where reeds grew, Spanish junco, from Latin iuncus.
  • Asturian-Leonese : Castilianized form of Xuncu, a habitational name from either of two places in Asturies named with this word, especially the one in the district of Ribesella.
  • Galician : Castilianized form of Xunco, a habitational name from a town of this name in Galicia.

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