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Pestana

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Spanish (Pestaña) : from Portuguese pestana, Spanish pestaña ‘eyelash’, also in the Middle Ages ‘eyebrow’, hence a nickname for someone who had long eyelashes or bushy eyebrows.

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