Last name: FREITAS
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Last name frequency
FREITAS : This last name is indexed 68,694 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FREITAS : Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of numerous places called Freitas or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony ground from Portuguese (pedras) freitas ‘broken stones’ Late Latin (petrae) fractae. Compare Fleitas.
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(18) - Memorials
(8) - Coats of Arms
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