Origem dos Sobrenomes

Where does your last name come from? The Origin of Surnames tells the story of more than 5,000 surnames used in Brazil: which country or people they came from, how they were formed, and what they meant.

Surnames hold the history of Brazilian families: Portuguese colonization, the great waves of Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Arab, and Slavic immigration, and indigenous and Jewish roots. Each surname has its own text explaining this trajectory.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND
• Origin and meaning of each surname, clearly explained
• Stamp with the origin: Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, German, French, British and Irish, Slavic, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Arabic, Jewish, Indigenous and others
• How the surname was formed: patronymic (from an ancestor's name), toponymic (from a place), occupational (from a profession), nickname (from a nickname) or religious
• Spellings and variants gathered in the same entry

FIND YOUR SURNAME
• Quick search that understands surnames with or without accents and ignores particles such as "da", "dos" and "de"
• Navigation by letter
• Lists by country of origin and by type of surname

FOR THOSE WHO LIKE GENEALOGY
Discover your family roots, compare your grandparents' surnames and understand where each side of your family tree came from.

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