Given name & surname · also Spanish

Magallanes

Magallanes is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Portuguese. It is used in English, Spanish, Tagalog, Cebuano, and 1 other language.

Original PortugueseMagalhães

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Magallanes comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Portuguese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Filipino usage, Magallanes as a surname developed from Magalhães.

Magallanes’s family of names

In Filipino usage, Magallanes as a surname developed from the Portuguese form Magalhães. In Spanish usage, Magallanes as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form MAGELLAN. In Spanish usage, Magallanes as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Portuguese form Magalhães.

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