What does my surname (Arellano) mean??
What does my surname (Arellano) mean? I've looked everywhere on the web and it's never listed.
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Looking at an Italian dictionary, the closest I could get was "arenato" which means stranded or beached or a strand which is a beach ...the last part of the name is obviously a diminutive, but maybe the L and R difference is regional or occurred upon immigration.Nothing even that close in a Spanish dictionary, but maybe Sagani knows ...
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According to Gutierre TIBON Aurellano is the Basque variant of a Spanish first name Aureliano, coming from the given name "Aurelio".
In Italy it is possible to find Arigliano or Aureli.
In Italy it's quite common Arena: this surname has a locative origin.
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