Where do the following surnames originate from? Gerardo, Serrano, Bravo, Uribe, and Martinez?

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Where do the following surnames originate from? Gerardo, Serrano, Bravo, Uribe, and Martinez?

Answer 1

All the name origins posted below came from www.ancestry.com

Gerardo Name Meaning and History

Spanish and Italian: from the personal name Gerardo (see Gerard).

Serrano Name Meaning and History

Spanish (also found in Portugal and Brazil): topographic name for someone who lived by a mountain ridge or chain of hills, from an adjectival derivative of serra.

Bravo Name Meaning and History

Spanish and Portuguese: nickname from bravo ‘fierce’, ‘violent’, ‘courageous’ (from Latin barbarus ‘barbarian’, ‘ruffian’).

Uribe Name Meaning and History

topographic name for someone who lived in the lower part of a village, from Basque uri ‘settlement’ + be(h)e ‘lower part’.

habitational name from Uribe, a town in Biscay province, Basque Country.

Martinez Name Meaning and History

Spanish (Martínez): patronymic from the personal name Martin.

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