Given name & surname
Nunes
Nunes is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Nunez, built from Portuguese Nuno + -es.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Nunes’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Nunes as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Núñez.
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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