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Sotomayor

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

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : Castilianized form of Soutomaior, a habitational name from the name of two places in Pontevedra and Ourense provinces, Galicia, so named from souto ‘grove’, ‘small wood’ + maior ‘larger’, ‘main’.

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