Vásquez
Meaning
a patronymical surname from Old Galician-Portuguese.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
Vás‧quez
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbaskeθ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese Vaasquez, from an earlier Velasco + -ez. Velasco and Belasco are Romance forms of a name in a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (probably Iberian [Term?] or Basque [Term?]). Doublet of Velázquez, Blázquez, and Valesco.
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