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Catalan Names

Abelló
Usage: Catalan, Italian
Variant of Abelli.

Agramunt
Usage: Catalan
Means "from Agramunt, Spain".

Albert
Usage: Catalan, English, French, Hungarian, German
Extra: Statistics
Derived from the given name Albert.

Andreu
Usage: Catalan
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From the Catalan given name Andreu.

Blanxart
Usage: Catalan
Catalan form of Blanco.

Bonaventura
Usage: Catalan
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Word used to say "good fortune". Fortunetellers used it with reference to "the luck of a coming future".

Cardona
Usage: Catalan, Spanish
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From the name of a Catalan town.

Castell
Usage: Catalan
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From Latin castellum "castle", indicating a person who lived near a castle.

Ferrer
Usage: Catalan
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Catalan cognate of Ferrari.

Grec
Usage: Catalan
Catalan cognate of Greco.

Jordà
Usage: Catalan
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Derived from the Catalan form of the given name Jordan.

Martell (2)
Usage: Catalan
Derived from Latin martellus "hammer".

Martí
Usage: Catalan
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Derived from the personal name Martí, the Catalan form of Martin.

Mas (1)
Usage: Catalan
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Means "farm" in Catalan.

Mata
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
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Means "dweller by a plantation of trees" from the Old Spanish mata.

Mateu
Usage: Catalan
Derived from the Catalan form of Matthew.

Moles
Usage: Catalan, Spanish
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Mainly Catalan, from a nickname that means "millstone".

Noguerra
Usage: Spanish, Catalan
Means "dweller by the walnut tree" from the Late Latin nucarius.

Oliver
Usage: Catalan, English, French, German, Scottish
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Derived from the personal name Oliver.

Petit
Usage: Catalan, English, French
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Means "small, little" derived from the Old French petit. Perhaps used for a short, small person or to denote the younger of two individuals.

Picasso
Usage: Catalan
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Means "magpie" from the Spanish picazo. This probably denoted someone who was talkative or prone to stealing, although it may have described someone's unusual colouring.

Porra
Usage: Catalan
Variant of Porras.

Porras
Usage: Spanish, Catalan
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From a nickname meaning "club".

Puig
Usage: Catalan, Spanish
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Means "dweller on a hill(ock)" from the Old Provençal and Catalan puy.

Quintana
Usage: Spanish, Catalan
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Means "dweller on a piece of land whose rent is one-fifth it's produce" from the Spanish and Catalan quintana.

Rey (1)
Usage: English, Spanish, French, Catalan
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Means "king" from the Latin rex, regis. Denoting someone who acted like a king perhaps.

Roig
Usage: Catalan
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Means "red (haired, complexioned)" from the Latin rubeus.

Romà (1)
Usage: Catalan
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Derived from the personal name Romanus. See Roman.

Romà (2)
Usage: Catalan
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Means "from Rome, Italy". Described either a person from there or someone who had been there.

Rosa
Usage: Italian, Catalan
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Means "rose" from the Latin rosa. Perhaps denoting a person who lived where roses grew or had a rosy complexion.

Sala
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian
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Means "worker at a manor house" from the Old French salle.

Soler
Usage: Provençal, Catalan
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A surname that denotes a person from any of the numerous places in the area whose names derive from the word soler meaning "site, plot".

Tomàs
Usage: Catalan
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From the Catalan given name Tomàs.

Tosell
Usage: Catalan
Variant of Tos.

Toset
Usage: Catalan
Variant of Tos.

Ventura
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan
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Comes from the Italian first name Bonaventura and the Spanish form Buenaventura.

Vilaró
Usage: Catalan
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From the province of Cataluna in Spain, and means "little rustic cabin". The name is thought to have been originally from France and was changed from the 13th century Vilaroux into the Catalan Vilaro.

Vivas
Usage: Catalan
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Means "may you live" from the Latin, Catalan and Spanish expression vivas which was bestowed upon children to bring good luck.

Vives
Usage: Catalan, Spanish
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Variant of Vivas.

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