Given name & surname
Vasques
Vasques is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Vasques comes from Old Galician-Portuguese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Vaasquez, built from Portuguese Vasco + -es.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Vasques’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Vasques as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Vásquez. In Galician usage, Vasques as a surname has a related form in Vázquez. In Portuguese usage, Vasques as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Galician form Vázquez.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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