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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese : habitational name from any of the places named Rosal or El Rosal, for example in Pontevedra and Huelva provinces, from a collective of rosa ‘rose’, thus ‘rose garden’.

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