Moscoso

English

Proper noun

Moscoso (plural Moscosos)

1. A surname from Galician

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Moscoso is the 11739^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2669 individuals. Moscoso is most common among Hispanic/Latino (86.77%) individuals.

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Galician

Coat of arms of the Moscoso house

Etymology

From mosca (“fly”) +‎ -oso (“place with”). The surname, from a Galician Medieval noble house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkoso̝/

Proper noun

Moscoso

1. A parish of Pazos de Borbén, Pontevedra, Galicia.
2. A village in Rodeiro parish, Oza-Cesuras, A Coruña, Galicia.
3. A village in Ardemil parish, Ordes, A Coruña, Galicia.
4. a toponymical surname
   • 1467, J. A. Souto Cabo (ed.), Crónica de Santa María de Iria. Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:

     Enã era de mjll et quatroçentos et saseẽta et çinquo, prendeu Vernaldo Eanes de Moscoso ao arçobispo de Santiago, don Afonso de Fonseca, eña villa de Noya, et o teuo preso dous años, pouquo mays.

     In the year of 1465 Bernaldo Eanes of Moscoso captured the archbishop of Santiago [de Compostela], Don Afonso de Fonseca, in the town of Noia, and he kept him imprisoned for two year, or a little more

References

• “Moscoso” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “Moscoso” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Moscoso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG