Navarro (surname)

Navarro
Family name
Meaning someone from Navarre
Region of origin Spain, Italy
Language(s) of origin Spanish, Italian
Related names Navarra, Navarrini.

Navarro is a Spanish surname of the Kingdom of Navarre. Navarro is a regional name denoting someone from Navarre[1] after the Kingdom of Pamplona took on the new naming in the high Middle Ages, while also keeping its original meaning of 'Basque-speaking person' in a broader sense, an ethnic surname[2]

Found in Bologna (Bononia) in Emilia where it is the capital of the province of Bologna in Italy.

People with the surname

References

  1. http://www.ancestry.com/facts/navarro-name-meaning.ashx
  2. Sainz Pezonaga, Jabier (May–August 2003). "Antroponimia Medieval Euskérica en la Navarra Tudelana". Fontes Linguae Vasconum: Studia et Documenta. Gobierno de Navarra; Institución Príncipe de Viana. 1 (93): 340. ISSN 0343-6993.
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