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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from any of the towns called Pomar in Burgos, Palencia and Uesca provinces.
  • Catalan : topographic name from pomar ‘orchard’, for someone who lived by an orchard or worked as apple grower, or habitational name from any of the many minor places named with this word.

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