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5/15/2025, 1:40 AM Felie
12/2/2023, 8:14 PM Paradiso36

Name Mosquera
Type Surname (from location)
Usage Spanish, Catalan, Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced Pron. Mos-Que-Ra(Spanish)
Other Forms FormsMosqueira
Edit Status Status2a. listed usages are verified

Meaning & History

Spanish topographic name for someone who lived in a place that was infested with flies or mosquitos from a derivative of mosca "fly" (from Latin musca). Catalan habitational name from any of numerous places called Mosquera in Catalonia and Valencia in Spain and in Andorra.
Added 12/2/2023 by Paradiso36