Släkthistoria för Barrocas
Barrocas Vad efternamn betyder
Portuguese and Jewish (Sephardic from Portugal): habitational name from any of several places called Barrocas literally meaning ‘caves’. Compare Barocas. Jewish (Sephardic): also an adoption of the Portuguese surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the surname their families used as Catholics.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
