enlightening blog on Goan surnames. While Hindus shortened family names,
Catholics expanded their own
By Valmiki Faleiro.
We checked Goan Hindu Brahmin (GSB) surnames last Sunday. Let us today look at
those of other castes … and how GSBs warded off threats to their surname
identities!
Goan surnames of Portuguese origin
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Thisis list no; 3 of Goan surnames (rare) ,the other two having been posted
on the Goanet on
Feb. 16 and 22 respectively.By the way there was also a list of Goan
surnames (common)
on Feb 19.
Abranches, Albuquerque, Alcasoas, Alphonso, Alves, Anes, Antunes, Botelho,
Franco
Castro, Catao, Chaves,
The second most numerous Goan surnames after the ones which end in ES are:
2. Ending in EIRO/ EIRA : Carneiro, Cordeiro, Faleiro, Monteiro, Pinheiro,
Ribeiro /
/Caldeira, Ferreira,Madeira, Pereira and Silveira.
3. DO / DA / DE Azavedo, Figueiredo, Dourado, Furtado, Machado / Almeida,
Miranda
What about these surnamesare they Goan- Portuguese too??
Cardine / Cardina?? , Coqueiro, Carrasco, Mendanha, Salazar
Rgds
G.Ferrao
--- On Thu, 26/2/09, Antonio Menezes ac.mene...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Antonio Menezes ac.mene...@gmail.com
Subject: [Goanet] Goan Surnames
To: goanet goa
About one third of the most common Goan surnames or rather Portuguese
surnames
end in - ES - as follows: Alvares, Borges, Fernandes, Goes, Gomes,
Gonsalves, Lopes,
Marques, Martyres, Mendes, Menezes, Moraes, Nunes, Paes, Pires, Rodrigues,
Sales,
Simoes, Soares, Tavares, Teles, Vales; to this
Antonio.how about Verdesto include in rare goan surnames..
Edward Verdes
Chinchinim/Jeddah/KSA
Hi Antonio
Is Santimano eligible for the 'hall of rare Goan surnames' :)
What intrigues me is the origins Santimano?
Best of luck
Eustaquio Santimano
- Originating from Colva
- Currently living in Singapore
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:01:37 +0800, Antonio Menezes ac.mene...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Antonio,
Very good compilations (re 2 posts on the subject).
To your 100 Goan surnames and your rare Goan surnames, I would add the
following surnames of Goans I have actually known:
Abranches, Alves
Baptista, Botelho
Catao, Conceicao (Concessio)
D'Penha
Freitas
Messias, Monserrate
Oliveira
Dear Estaquio,
As you know, the name Santimano is of interest to me too ;-)
My family has always believed it means hand of saint, but then again they could
be biased ;-)
Best,
Selma
--- On Sun, 2/22/09, Eustaquio Santimano eustaquio.santim...@gmail.com wrote:
Is Santimano eligible for the
Hi Roland,
With some palpitation I opened your post and was pleasantly surprised that
you were not
asking for the missing FRANCIS. Well, you did nothing of the sort and i
must say
you are in good company of Goans whose surnames are as good as Goan names
like
Baptista, Conceicao, Clemente,
Here is a list of somewhat rare surnames among Goan catholics.
Amaral, Aranha, Barco,Barneto, Caeiro, Campos, Cardinho, Castanha,
Chagas, Cotta,
Dantas, Delgado, Egipsy, Figueira, Franco, Frias, Gomendes, Gouveia, Henriques,
Heredia, Jacques, Joanes, Lacerda, Macedo, Maciel, Mazarelo, Neto ,
Dear Antonio,
you missed the most famous and
the most common goan surname
the Fernandes
I am quite miffed you missed my
illustrious name.
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Sorry guys! I do not know how I could have missed FERNANDES which is the
most popular
surname among Goans. It is said Goan is Fernandes or Fernandes is Goan. If
I am not
mistaken , it easily outnumbers next five popular surnames clubbed together
i.e. Souza,
Rodrigues, Pereira, Costa and Dias.
MACIEL is also missing from this list.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Transwiki:List_of_Goan_Christian_surnames
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Portuguese_surnames
Olga Maciel
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A hundred surnames among Goan Catholics follow:
Abreu, Afonso, Aguiar, Alemao, Almeida, Alvares, Andrade Antao Araujo
Athaide Azavedo,
Barbosa, Baretto, Barros Borges, Braganza Britto
Cabral, Caldeira, Cardoso,Carneiro, Carasco, Carvalho, Castellino, Coelho,
Collaco Cordeiro
Correia, Costa,
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GOAN SURNAMES
By Valmiki Faleiro
Let’s take the topic in two parts: Catholic and Hindu surnames. Catholic
surnames
are rooted in the Iberian Peninsula. Because they came from European priests,
who
baptized Goa’s first converts.
Iberian surnames are, among other things, after animals, birds,
Hi people,
Got this as a forward from a friend. Found it interesting so am posting it
here.
Goan Surnames of Portuguese origin:
Abreu - elf's counsel
Afonso - noble is ready
Aguiar - haunt of eagles
Alberto - noble is famous
Albuquerque - white oak tree
Alcantara - arch
Aldeia - village
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