Navarro (surname)

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, Italian and Jewish (Sephardic[1] of Basque origin) name. Navarro is a regional name denoting someone from Navarre[2] 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[3]

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

References

  1. ^[page needed]http://www.sephardim.com/namelist.shtml?mode=form&from=N&to=O&Search=Search
  2. ^ http://www.ancestry.com/facts/navarro-name-meaning.ashx
  3. ^ 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. http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=664035. 

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