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Given name & surname · also Portuguese

Sousa

Sousa is a surname from Portuguese, ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese. It is used in English and Portuguese.

Original PortugueseSouza

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Sousa comes from Portuguese, and ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Portuguese Sousa, from Old Galician-Portuguese Sousa.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sousa’s family of names

In Portuguese usage, Sousa has a later derivative in SOSA. In English usage, Sousa as a surname has a related form in DESOUZA. In Portuguese usage, Sousa as a surname has a related form in SOUZA.

Walk Sousa’s family in the name graph

SousaSouzaDesouzaSosaΣούζα

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Sousa has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Portuguese roots to each of them.

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Portuguesewhere Sousa comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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