Given name & surname

Vargas

Vargas is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, Turkish, Tagalog, and 1 other language.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Vargas comes from Spanish.

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How it developed

From Spanish Vargas.

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Vargas’s family of names

In English usage, Vargas as a surname has a related form in VARGUS. In English usage, Vargas as a surname has a related form in VARGUS. In Greek usage, Vargas as a surname is a transliteration of Βάργας.

Walk Vargas’s family in the name graph

VargasΒάργαςVargus巴爾加斯

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

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Around the world

Vargas has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.

ChineseSpanish

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

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 1

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

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

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

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No U.S. birth series

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No U.S. birth series

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