Most Common surnames from your area of Portugal?

[Slycooper]

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[Damião de Góis]

Silva, Costa, Ferreira, Pereira, Sousa, Vaz, Gonçalves, Santos, Alves....

[aimar]

Silva, Costa, Ferreira, Pereira, Sousa, Vaz, Gonçalves, Santos, Alves....

same, except vaz and alves, plus figueiredo and lopes

[Atlantic Islander]

Bettencourt, Dutra, Azevedo, Paiva, Soares, Cardoso, Silveira, Borba, Borges, Mendonca, Sousa, Machado, Teixeira, Goulart

[Sikeliot]

The most common ones in my area in the US (where most are Madeiran) are Lopes, Gomes, and Gonsalves (which is not spelled the Portuguese way but still).

[Catrau]

In the village where I come from, the family name Henriques is carried by almost every family along with another one. The others are: Figueira; Nogueira; Rosa; Martinho; Catrau; Ferreira; Mendes and Duarte.

The village is very old. The Nabão valley, som 500m away, was one of the last refuges of the Neandertals and one of the first of the Sapiens. It must have been an iron age castro. Recently two stone carved graves have been dated as from the roman era,we also have a bridge and a road. During the repopulation and right after the christian settlement, It was a "Comenda" of the Templar knights. During king John I rule, his son Henry the Navigator was made knights templar master and he offered the "Comenda" to a priest called Frei Martins Ferreira about 1413-1415.

[Transmontano]

Castro, Pereira, Moura, Caetano, Barreira, Rodrigues, Lopes, Carvalho

hum... :mmmm:

[Han Cholo]

In the village where I come from, the family name Henriques is carried by almost every family along with another one. The others are: Figueira; Nogueira; Rosa; Martinho; Catrau; Ferreira; Mendes and Duarte.

The village is very old. The Nabão valley, som 500m away, was one of the last refuges of the Neandertals and one of the first of the Sapiens. It must have been an iron age castro. Recently two stone carved graves have been dated as from the roman era,we also have a bridge and a road. During the repopulation and right after the christian settlement, It was a "Comenda" of the Templar knights. During king John I rule, his son Henry the Navigator was made knights templar master and he offered the "Comenda" to a priest called Frei Martins Ferreira about 1413-1415.

Is Nogueira specifically Portuguese? I have a friend here in Mexico with that surname.

[Damião de Góis]

Is Nogueira specifically Portuguese? I have a friend here in Mexico with that surname.

Could be galician as well... but i'm not sure.

[Catrau]

Is Nogueira specifically Portuguese? I have a friend here in Mexico with that surname.

Right, it could be Galician as Well.
In Castillan the word would be Nogal.

Other Galician names in my village list are: Ferreira and Figueira

http://www.apelidosgalicia.org/nubea...g=0&newlang=es