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Re: The surname Jasso
This surname , like Jaso, could have at least four different
origins:
Britain
Spain, namely the northern region of Navarra
Eastern Europe: Poland or Hungary
The only one I can explain you is the spanish one:
It shoud be a Spanish-Basque surname that derives from names of places (the meaning could be "wood".
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My last name is also Jasso and my father was Mexican. He once told me that he thought his great grandfaher had been given the name when he moved in with a family during the Mexican Revolutionary War. I was surprised when I looked it up on the Ellis Island website and found that the origin might be Hungarian.
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hi i also heard it was hunagairan, lots of hungarians have this last name, but ym granpa told me we cmae with cortez and we r from northern italy, maybe that will help you.
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attn. SaganiHey, thanks a lot. I ought to have said that I knew it was Spanish, that may have helped. How/where do you know this? Thanks again : )L. Jasso
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You should look for it in the Diccionario Etimologico comparado se los Apellidos Hispanoanericanos y Filipinos by Gutierre TIBON.
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