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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : topographic name for someone who lived in a place that was infested with flies or mosquitos, from a derivative of mosca ‘fly’ (see Mosca).
  • Catalan : habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mosquera in Catalonia, Valencia and Andorra.

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