Veloso

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English

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Etymology

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Portuguese, Filipino, and Hispanic surname, either borrowed from Portuguese or Galician (via Spanish).

Proper noun

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Veloso (plural Velosos)

  1. A surname.

Statistics

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Veloso is the 22906th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1117 individuals. Veloso is most common among White (38.14%), Asian/Pacific Islander (34.11%), and Hispanic/Latino (23.19%) individuals.

Cebuano

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Etymology

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From Spanish, from Galician.

Proper noun

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Veloso

  1. a surname from Galician

Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese veloso (hairy).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Veloso m

  1. a surname

References

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “Veloso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Veloso” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Veloso m

  1. a surname

Statistics

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(Per Forebears 2014)

  • 226th most common surname in Angola
  • 267th most common surname in Brazil
  • 184th most common surname in Portugal

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Galician or Portuguese.

Proper noun

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Veloso m or f by sense

  1. a surname from Galician or Portuguese

Statistics

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(Per Forebears 2014)

  • 434th most common surname in Chile
  • 1,983rd most common surname in Argentina
  • 2,577th most common surname in Spain

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish, from Galician.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Veloso (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓᜐᜓ)

  1. a surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician], notably borne by:
    1. Lou Veloso, Filipina politician and actress
    2. Mary Jane Veloso, Filipina worker on death row in Indonesia after being used as a drug mule by a drug syndicate

Statistics

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  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Veloso is the 333rd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 24,231 individuals.