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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Montáñez) : of uncertain derivation; either a habitational name from Montáñez, a minor place in Granada or an altered spelling of montañées ‘from the mountains’, an adjectival derivative of montaña ‘mountain’.

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